25 May
2000
25 May
'00
3:19 p.m.
----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com>
Sin Hang Kin wrote:
In web hosting environment like imeme.net, It is painful and unsecure for all to share the import directory for updating.
And it's insecure for the service providor to allow importign over the web :(
Yesterday, Jim actually came up with the hint of the start of how web import could be made secure. It should be possibly to write an unpickler which consults the security machinery and ensures that the pickle doesn't instantiate anything that the user doesn't have permission to make. It may be quite a while before someone actually writes this, unless one of you folks wants to give it a shot ;-) Cheers, Evan @ digicool & 4-am