On DOS era the usual networking available was the BBS and terminal
server programs. Someone dialing to your equipment can runs programs
on your system. Of course you must be carefull and never give access
to dangerous programs.
2009/6/22, Pat Villani :
> You're pretty much on the right track.
You're pretty much on the right track. FreeDOS is modeled after
MS-DOS, which has no security features whatsoever. And you're right,
adding them would be confusing to users, and more than likely break
many applications. Isolating FreeDOS in some sort of virtualization
such as dosemu, or a vmware
It's starting to dawn on me that although Freedos is an
excellent choice for being able to run most old dos programs,
it's a nightmare from a network security point of view. I
suppose there's the option of running it on top of Linux
and using Linux to control where dos can go on your network,
