classic lets you read other ppl's files

[bighairydog]

  OK, this really should have occurred to me before, but OS 9 doesn't use file permissions, so any user can access any other user's files simply by opening a classic app and using the open file dialogue.
  As a system administrator I don't want to disable classic for all users, but is there another way of preventing users from opening other users files?
  If there, is, then I can't believe apple haven't enabled it as default, as this makes all the advanced UNIX security features *completely* redundant! Any user can just use any text editor in classic to open a file in another user’s “private” folders, then save it as their own, edit the type/creator codes to the original file’s ones, and they have a fully working file.

Is this some F**k-up with my configuration of does everybody have this problem?

Bernie )

 

[Jadey]

Apple hasn't really enabled anything, since this is the normal behavior of OS 9. If you ran a machine with multiple users under OS 9, this was always available to users of that system before. If its suddenly become an issue, all you can do is not have classic able to run, or run 3rd party software under OS 9 in classic that locks users private files and folders. The owner would have to enter a password to access it. Several options are at www.versiontracker.com to do this.

 

[bighairydog]

Originally posted by Jadey
this is the normal behavior of OS 9. If you ran a machine with multiple users under OS 9, this was always available to users of that system before

It was? And I never noticed?

So *thats* why my friends call me dappy...

Ta

Bernie )