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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:47:49 +0000
From:      Pater Pandoson <ppandoson@eCoNeed.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: perl
Message-ID:  <3A76E225.A40C8A3@eCoNeed.com>
References:  <E14Ncrx-000DAU-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>

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Cliff Sarginson wrote:

> > Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> >
> > > WHat harm will they do, pray ?
> > > If the rest of your system is secure..perl is just another
> > > computer language :)
> >
> > Hmm better safe than sorry. Who knows what might go
> > bump in the nite.
>
> Well, I think this is the wrong way of going about it.
> On a system setup properly no user can damage stuff by using
> perl, the only person he/she can shoot in the foot is him/her self.
> I think denying access to stuff is a security cop-out, for the
> simple reason that it will encourage deviant behaviour amongst the
> so-inclined, and it won't stop a determined person anyway (they
> can always install their own copy of it !).
>
> Look at permissions, firewalls, ownerships, not at language or other
> tools.
> Well, it's your system. Just my thoughts..
>
> Cliff
>
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Who says that uses have access to a partition capable of executing
binaries?
And if there is a "security cop-out" I will gladly take it.



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