Short: Multi User System Security (update) Type: util/misc Uploader: uytterho@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Author: Geert Uytterhoeven - Huysmansstraat 12 - B-3128 BAAL - BELGIUM Introduction ------------ MultiUser allows you to create a *IX-like environment where several users live together in harmony, unable to delete each others files, unable to read those private love-letters of other users. And this even if several users are working on the machine at the same time (on a terminal hooked up to the serial port) People without a valid login ID and password won't be able to access files you have made private with MultiUser. If you make all files private (not readable for others), the only useful thing they could do, is boot from a floppy. Contents -------- This archive contains a fix for a dangerous bug in the MultiUserFileSystem. In case the validation of a partition failed under pre-3.0, your computer crashed instead of showing a requester. Now all versions of the MultiUserFileSystem should work under 2.04 or higher (and even under 1.3, although you can't login then :-). Special thanks to Carsten Pluntke (Carsten_Pluntke@ouzonix.bo.open.de) for reporting this nasty bug! Distribution ------------ MultiUser Release 1.7a is distributed in 5 archives: MultiUser17_bin.lha: Basic MultiUser package (your really need this!) MultiUser17_ext.lha: External utilities MultiUser17_api.lha: Include files, autodoc, etc... MultiUser17_src.lha: Source for the library and support commands MultiUser17a.lha: Update from Release 1.7 to Release 1.7a Users of MultiUser Release 1.7 need only the new archive MultiUser17a.lha. For more information about MultiUser (disclaimer, distributability, usage, etc...), read the documentation file 'MultiUser.doc' in the archive 'MultiUser17_bin.lha'. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MultiUser © Copyright 1993-1994 by Geert Uytterhoeven ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 2019 1014 49.7% 15-May-94 23:58:38 MultiUser/MultiUser17a.readme 21080 14059 33.3% 15-May-94 23:58:38 MultiUser/Patch/MultiUserFileSystem_2.04.pch 21076 14060 33.2% 15-May-94 23:58:38 MultiUser/Patch/MultiUserFileSystem_2.05.pch 21084 14057 33.3% 15-May-94 23:58:38 MultiUser/Patch/MultiUserFileSystem_2.1.pch 5400 4184 22.5% 15-May-94 23:58:40 MultiUser/Patch/MultiUserFileSystem_3.0.pch 5356 4178 21.9% 15-May-94 23:58:40 MultiUser/Patch/MultiUserFileSystem_3.1.pch -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 76015 51552 32.1% 17-May-94 11:57:06 6 files