[Esd-l] macro scanner: defang instead of refuse

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Tue Jun 4 08:45:01 PDT 2002


On 3 Jun 2002, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> Group membership management on a Windows share implies training users to
> grant access to others. They already know how to pick names out of their
> address book. Most think that email is "secure enough", so they might
> not be concerned with limiting access to a file on a company-wide public
> share. Otherwise one faces the battle of teaching them how to set up
> permissions and they then have to worry about what happens if they screw
> up and a boss can't get in.

Oh. I was proceeding from the assumption that it'd be a centralized
share on a server, where you would control the access via NT group
membership, not a share on an individual user's computer managed by
that user.

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