Originally posted by Henry Wong:
Does such a feature exists? I would be interested to know too.
The last time that I needed to get around being challenged for the password while accessing a networked file (in Samba), was to configure the network folder to be a public share. This would remove all security on the shared folder, but I was just using it to quickly transfer non-important files. (and in the intranet)
Henry
Can we transfer this to
Security: SSL, LDAP, JCE, JAAS, etc, there are greymeat isssues involved and Pat Farrell seems to be the only one who knows these issues effectively, it is discussed in his thesis:
can be modelled as a collection of abstract single-user single-task machines connected at their user interfaces The user interface is a remarkably slippery mind-field where ideas reign millions of Joe Average to harness a system where most cannot even deal with the idea of a folder, let alone the mapping of a backslash to some disk-head position ( and associated L-2 writebacks ) - all of which represents easily harnessed attack portals.
I was reading a web-page a month ago of a legitimate worker in the field of computer security, a poll was being run as to what is the biggest security problem, an open poll and we do not know who really was replying.
1,500 - the keyboard and associated ( mind )
850 - all other categories combined
For my part, I will only work this further if it shows up in the security forum at javaranch, be though it may I find this subject overly tempting.