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- From: zz1bb@impending.ucsd.edu (Barry Brown)
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- Subject: Re: Hiding the System Folder
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:14:32 GMT
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- In <BxvzAy.81r@news.iastate.edu> S2.RSB@isumvs.iastate.edu (Bob Boston) writes:
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- >In article <1ebs1aINNpkv@agate.berkeley.edu>,
- >labb-3ff@web-3b.berkeley.edu (Peter Yung) writes:
- >>Is there any shareware
- >>out there that will let us lock the users out of the system folder?
- >>
-
- >Our Comp Center is using a program called RevRdist to protect their system
- >disks. The program runs at startup, comparing stuff on the system disk with
- >a copy of the disk kept on the network server. If the two do not agree, the
- >program eliminates the Wrong Stuff, downloads the Right Stuff and restarts the
- >computer. I think you can set RevRdist to do the same thing with application
- >software as well as system software.
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- RevRDist won't do any good if, as Peter wrotes, users move the System file
- out to the desktop. At UCSD, we use ResEdit to make the System Folder
- invisible. Anyone with ResEdit (or similar utility) can make it visible
- again, but it keep the casual hackers out.
-
- We also use RevRDist to keep the disks up-to-date and KeyServer to prevent
- pirating of our software.
-
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