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Hi, James,
You are correct, sir! I meant "RFE"... need more coffee, apparently.
Mark
On Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 12:06:34 PM EDT, James H. H. Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Considering the SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES of allowing read-write shares to
the root of the IFS, in these days of "Ramsomware" attacks, etc., I
think we need an RFC and get everyone to vote on it, such that IBM
permanently "bans" all read-write "shares" of the root file system on
IBM i.
What do you all think?
I think you must mean an RFE. The last time I checked, an RFC was a
document defining some Internet-related or otherwise
open-standards-related rule, protocol, or (as we say in the NMRA, which
was doing open standards back when ENIAC was new technology) recommended
practice. And I support the idea. There's no reason why the root of any
OS should be publicly shared, least of all with write access.
--
JHHL
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