Date   : Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:43:27 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Econet

Grrrrr!!!!  BLOODY STUPID BROKEN HEADERS!!!!
 
I only just noticed before uploading that this messaed had
ReplyTo'd BeebMaster instead of the mailing list.
 
Anyway...
 
"Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...> wrote:
> section of a disc in Level 2 or 3 Econet.  The point I was trying to make
> is that you can go and view the L4 files on a 32-bit machine using
> nothing other than the usual ADFS *CAT and *DIR commands.
 
Yes, by bypassing the security implemented by the file server
program. You can do that on any file server by using the data
access calls that the file server program uses to access the data
which the file server program overlays with its security system.
 
Any machine that is running a file server program that is not
physically locked away, such as in a cupboard, is just as insecure
as a Level 4 server running on RISC OS. You never depend on the
security implemented by the *file server program* if physical
access to the machine running the file server program is not
secure.
 
> On an 8-bit machine with a disc containing a L2 or L3 Econet partition,
> you can't do this without a specialist utility programme like the one you
> mention.
 
*CAT will do it on a Level 1 disk. *DUMP FSDISC will do it on a
Level 2 disk. CHAIN "sector editor of choice" will do it on any
file server disk.
 
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