On Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 7:19:42 AM [GMT -0500], Avi Yashar wrote:
Okay, this much I understand. What I don't understand is how the OTFE
capability arose in the first place. Who installed TB with OTFE
capability and chose the master password?
As Roelof indicated earlier, deleting your registry key and restarting
TB! will give rise to being prompted for OTFE or unencrypted use.
Each new user logs into their XP/NT user space and start TB!. No
registry key for TB! has yet been written. They're prompted on whether
or not they wish to use OTFE.
Wouldn't that be the
administrator or someone with administrator privileges? Don't you need
administrator privileges to install an OTFE TB?
You need it to install TB!.
I have a Non-OTFE
installation of TB on my computer. When I set up a new account in my
Non-OTFE TB, I am not given the opportunity to use OTFE for that
account.
OTFE is all or none, in that you can't have one account using OTFE
encryption while another isn't.
That's very different from multiple users logging into different XP
accounts and using TB!. They're using separate TB! configurations and
separate mail directories in separate locations. One could be using OTFE
encryption, while another isn't.
Enabling OTFE encryption is enabling a feature like any other. It's not
like you've installed separate files for it and need to tick a radio box
to include whatever files are necessary to run OTFE.
No. The administrator should be prompted for the master password.
For one users installation?
My understanding - and it could be wrong - is that each account could
have a different password, but there is a master password that is
required just to launch TB.
For OTFE, yes. The master password is for that XP user TB!.
I use a number of apps whose configuration can be passphrase protected.
These are anti-virus agents, firewalls, mailservers and such. Not one
have passphrase protected uninstall procedures, the reasoning being that
it's an administrator's action which is already secured.
Well, I believe that I have seen the request for a password before
uninstalling with other apps that I have used. But maybe I am
mistaken.
I'd love to know which one. :) I'm yet to meet one.
Running XP in administrator mode is something we take for granted.
Though it has it's advantages in that you have control, the disadvantage
is that a virus or trojan could seize that control.
--
-= Allie Martin =-
The Bat!? v3.5.29
System Specs: http://www.ac-martin.com/sysspecs.htm
-=-=-
Smoking cures weight problems...eventually.
Current beta is 3.5.29 | 'Using TBBETA' information:
http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first -
http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
