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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!shurr
  3. From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
  4. Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
  5. Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
  6. Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:05:19 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Dec31.050519.20554@cbnews.cb.att.com>
  8. References: <1992Dec29.052115.27441@cbnews.cb.att.com> <laird.725643909@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec29.142331.777@mec.ohio.gov>
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  11. In article <1992Dec29.142331.777@mec.ohio.gov> smith@leeca.oecn.ohio.gov writes:
  12. }In article <laird.725643909@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu>, laird@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
  13. }> shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
  14. }> I'd sure love some simple security that would keep people from deleting
  15. }> files like config.sys.  I thought that something like that was available
  16. }> for OS/2, but I can't recall.
  17.  
  18. }Hmmm, I must be simpleminded, but setting permission to read-only should keep
  19. }the casual user from doing to much harm.
  20.  
  21. Casual user?  Yes, quite likely it would.  Malicious and sophisticated
  22. user?  No way.
  23.  
  24. Larry
  25. -- 
  26. Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
  27. Norman, listen carefully.  I am lying.  Are you sure your circuits are
  28. registering?  Your ears are green.  Logic is a little bird singing in a
  29. meadow.  Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
  30.