Re: Security stuff

[Eonicman <eonicman@erols.com>]

Anthony Jacques wrote:

> Why must GEM be started as root? I guess 'cause it accesses system variables,
> but this doesn't mean ALL GEM apps access them?
>
> > The problem is not with GEM, but with thousands titles of GEM software,
> > which wants to access for example Cookie Jar and which can't be mostly
> > recompiled for new system.
>
> IMO, we have four types of software:
>   * old TOS based progs that access cookie jar etc.
>   * old GEM based progs that access cookie jar etc.
>   * Modern MiNT aware TOS progs that can be made secure with new libs
>   * Modern MiNT aware GEM progs that can be made secure with new libs
>
> I dont see why any modern MiNT aware apps cannot be made secure...
>
> Anthony

  This would probably be good for the "W" Windows programs also especially since
that is basically the most modern MiNTOS (Unix) windowing system that we have for
all machines with as little as 4 megabytes.


Peter Ross