Protecting against downloads

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <7772:Sep1408:18:1190 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>To do this right, you should protect all your executables and scripts
>behind a setuid program that handles access control and disables the
>appropriate signals.

Yes, and the vendor-supplied login program does exactly that.  If it
allows all users to read the executables as supplied by the vendor,
then we should assume that the vendor either doesn't care if they are
copied or is negligent in their responsibilities.
 
Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us