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Re: [cobalt-users] Is there a fix for making invisbles visible on RQ4?



Stew Smith wrote:

> > It's ridiculous to have to telnet in to remove a simple file created by
> > a perl script. I can't have all my resold clients telneting in to play
> > with cd and ls -a and rm commands willy nilly.
> 
> No it isn't ridiculous.  Unless you fubar your file permissions, site-admins
> can't harm your system; aside from their sites data.  Give them admin access
> though, and you are up-creek...  System management isn't done through a ftp
> client.  Is any part of this confusing you?

Sorry to have to disagree with anyone with a Cobalt return address, but
I would NEVER give any user, not even a site-admin, telnet access to any
RaQ under my control.

After all, even the paranoid do get followed <smile>.

Jeff
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