[DGD]Default Wiztool not loaded ?

Stephen Schmidt schmidsj at union.edu
Sun Feb 18 18:08:18 CET 2001


On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Felix A. Croes wrote:
> In the kernel library, each player with wizard-level access has his
> or her own wiztool, with its own privileges.  /kernel/lib/wiztool
> masks all functions that are relevant to security, so that any
> inheriting object only has the level of access appropriate for the
> owner of that object.
> As a result, command security is handled by only three objects:
> /kernel/sys/driver, /kernel/lib/auto and /kernel/lib/wiztool.  An
> enormous improvement, in my view.

Could one do something similar by having a /kernel/lib/command,
which would handle all security concerns for command access,
and then have all command files inherit that? It's not quite
parallel to the wiztool method, but it's not terribly
different.

Steve





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