It's starting to dawn on me that although Freedos is an excellent choice for being able to run most old dos programs, it's a nightmare from a network security point of view. I suppose there's the option of running it on top of Linux and using Linux to control where dos can go on your network, but I like to run Freedos natively. I guess I have gotten so used to Linux and Windows NT environments that I am taking for granted security gains that exist because there is a user context.
DOS was developed before the Internet and before network security became a really big deal. To make dos secure would involve adding a user context to all the files and requiring that people log in I suppose, but that would be very confusing and I doubt it would be compatible. I'm starting to realize that Dos based Windows which is not an OS is also problematic because there's no user context. 98SE supposedly has user context, but everyone is an admin. Is there a way to enforce user context in 98SE to keep people from willy nilly adding accounts to get around the security? Short of locking up dos mode in 98SE, people can probably hack their way past anything I'd do. Eric says that there is no censorship with Freedos because everyone is an admin. Uge! How does one sandbox Freedos properly short of running it on top of Linux? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
