[OpenAFS-port-darwin] 1.2.10 and patches?

Sebastian Hagedorn Hagedorn@uni-koeln.de
Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:07:11 +0200


--On Donnerstag, 28. August 2003 4:39 Uhr +0200 Ragnar Sundblad=20
<ragge@nada.kth.se> wrote:

> --On den 27 augusti 2003 17:43 +0200 Sebastian Hagedorn
> <Hagedorn@uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>
>> CAVEAT
>>      Access() is a potential security hole and should never be used.

> Any program that handles security has to do it right, or the
> system is not secure. That is no news, and the reason for
> having that text in the man page seems to be that there was
> a program that had the security problem describe above.
>
> I'd say, that the "potential security hole" issue is not a
> valid reason for Finder not using it.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Cheers, Sebastian Hagedorn
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