On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
It should be said that this bypasses security machinery, etc, by not using the ObjectManager interfaces. What bypassed security? BTreeFolder or the patch (I doubt that this patch does any harm to security))
I don't think that BTreeFolder was ever positioned as much more than something to subclass, which is likely the right way to do the UI for it. For example, I'm storing several hundred thousand objects in a BTreeFolder derived container, and I decided that the only way to have a decent UI was certainly not to use any of the ObjectManager stuff, and use a catalog to find objects, replacing the listbox UI with a search screen. I have to admit that I neighter know BTreeFolder internals nur that I use it. I just wanted to give sume support to a Debian user who had trouble in getting FreePM running because of problems with BTreeFolder.
Security issues about BTreeFolder might have been handled by FreePM authors - I just do not know about that. Kind regards Andreas.