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[Python-Dev] Capabilities

[Python-Dev] Capabilities [Python-Dev] CapabilitiesBen Laurie ben@algroup.co.uk
Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:05:45 +0100
Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> Hmm, i'm not sure you understood what i meant.  The code example i posted
> is a solution to the design challenge: "provide read-only access to a
> directory and its subdirectories, but no access to the rest of the filesystem".
> I'm looking for other security design challenges to tackle in Python.
> Once enough of them have been tried, we'll have a better understanding of
> what Python would need to do to make secure programming easier.

Well, one of the favourites is to create a file selection dialog that 
will only give access (optionally readonly) to the file designated by 
the user. This may be rather more than you want to bite off as a working 
system at this stage, though! It might be a useful thought experiment, 
though.

Cheers,

Ben.

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