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what is an sandbox?

Started by tball146, 18 April 2016 - 09:28 PM
tball146 #1
Posted 18 April 2016 - 11:28 PM
i keep hearing you could sandbox your os or something like that what does it mean?
Bomb Bloke #2
Posted 19 April 2016 - 12:14 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_%28computer_security%29

In ComputerCraft, you may for example want to prevent users from installing new scripts on a system unless they can enter an "admin" password. To this end, you might "sandbox" away their access to the writing functionality of fs.open().
tball146 #3
Posted 19 April 2016 - 12:31 AM
okay thanks i am gunna look into that then