On Aug 18, 2006, at 10:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For all users to access programs they have to be installed by an
Admin?
As Admin, you install Open Office, and all users of said machine have
rights to it.
Assuming I install it to the system's Applications folder, they all
have *access* rights to it, but they cannot change it at all. If I
install it to my local Applications folder, then no, they have no
access to it.
Your son saves files to his personal workspace, no
biggie. Same being true of a dabo utility you write.
As long as the files are in your home folder, that's correct.
Your son downloads a game to his workspace, but it's also a
Trojan. Can
an exploit that is in your son's area go and cross over to your wife's
files or mess with the file index of the disk?
No. Anything executing in my son's session is executing at his
privilege level, and thus has no access to other home folders or
system locations. The only way something like that can happen is if
there is a security flaw in the system that allows a rogue program to
get root privileges, and to date no such vulnerability has been found
in any BSD-based system (of which OS X is one).
-- Ed Leafe
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-- http://dabodev.com
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