[7842] in Athena Bugs
Re: /source/athena/athena.bin/mwm ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris VanHaren)
Tue Jul 30 13:49:53 1991
To: Richard Basch <basch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: jik@MIT.EDU, rel-eng@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 91 13:50:00 BST
> <sigh>... The fact that it is world readable on our system packs
> somewhat defeats the purpose of protecting it in the source tree; they
> are identical copies.
The system packs should also have it protected... as long as the
testers packs are on AFS, the directory containing mwm should be as
restrictive as the /source tree. I realize that making /usr/athena/bin
readable only to authuser could be disastrous, in that anyone without
tokens would then lose badly...
When we move to RVD's, the problem is moot... even though I suppose it
is possible for someone outside of MIT to mount an RVD and steal the
bits, I think that it is probably enough work for someone to do so that
it can be considered safe.
> Anyway, I'll acquire a copy of the license when I get back to Boston and
> then figure out what the next course of action should be. We are not
> gaining anything by restricting access in the source tree, as we have
> already made it wide open.
I disagree here. Simply because we cannot protect ourselves everywhere
is no reason not to protect ourselves where we can easily do so.
> (Nor are we able to protect previous
> versions that reside in RO volumes).
Same argument. Even though we can't do anything about old copies, we
should still do what we can to comply with the license where we can...
-C.
