OT: Alien OS "security" issues :)

[Simo Sorce]

I rember also dos had some sort of assign but not sure.

Why not simply considering this assigns as some sort of symbolic links?
and use the follow symlink parameters?

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 11:14, Ulf Bertilsson wrote:
> 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
> 
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