On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, j f chaos wrote:
>Ascii pfiles are to easy to edit from an outsied editor (vi for
>instance), and would allow anyone w/ access to the circle directory to
>play around w/ the players files.
Of course, you can just run 'mudpasswd' from the directory right now to
change the implementor's password and then log in as them with binary
pfiles. If people want to change something, they'll do it somehow.
That and the fact that people shouldn't be able to get into your directory
in the first place, render that argument ineffective.
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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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