OT: Alien OS "security" issues :)

[Ulf Bertilsson]

Hi,

My OS have something called "assigns".
It's an very practical symbolic link thing.

Amigsos have basic "volumes" is this style:

 - sys:
 - work:
 - s:
...

The posix wrapper emulation translate this
into to "/sys" "/work" etc

"Assigns" gives you the possibility to map this way:

assign ulf: "work:ulf/test"

then you can "cd ulf:" and pwd will be "work:ulf/test"

Let's say you share "/"

Then you can cd "\\amiga\all"

ls shows

work
sys
ram
...

But what you can do is:

\\amiga\all\ulf

And you dump right into "work:ulf/test"

I guess the security issue is quite ironic as the os
itself is not multiuser and have no real consept of file security.

Do any other os have simular behavior ?

What I consider is an set env variable like
"Samba_Follow_Assign"=true/false

--
Ulf
Still using alien os =D