| From: | paul |
| Date: | 2 May 2001 at 15:11:17 |
| Subject: | Re: What to do with the quit option! and Multiuser Workbench |
--- In amigactive@y..., Joris Kempen <Trekker@s...> wrote:
> Hello Andrew
> On 02-May-01, you wrote:
> >
> > PS. you can have a multi-user system anyway, but without
> > disabling the early startup sequence anyone can come along,
> > boot with no startup sequence and have complete access to your
> > amiga.
Not mine. I have a graphics card with no scandoubler, so you can't
see the early startup! OK, some smart Alec could plug a modulator
in..
> I tried myself securing my Amiga, is there a way to disable the
> early startup-sequence. CBM never thought of securtiy did they?
Well, they must of thought about it - user & group permissions have
been in the FastFileSystem since 2.0 (ish). They were never used
though...
> > There is a multi-user file system on aminet, I tried it years
> > ago, and came to the conclusion that it was really more trouble
> > then it's worth.
Well, you can use it to stop programs overwriting / install files etc.
> Hasn't it improved in the last years? Otherwise I would give it a
> try...
If you want real security the only way is to use one of the XPK
filesystems with an encrypting sub-library (e.g. IDEA).
But you'd only need that if you had something, er, dodgy to hide :-)
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