Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> That is an extremely bad idea!  By no means POV-Ray is meant for such a
> security-sensitive application.

  I don't think it's too dangerous to run POV-Ray under a dedicated
account using file access restrictions (both POV-Ray's own and the ones
provided by the OS).
  The only way to misuse this kind of service would be to make POV-Ray
use tons of memory, but even this can be limited by the OS (man limit).

  Naturally, no-one can guarantee that POV-Ray has no security holes,
but that's the same thing as with *every* software out there (including
apache and linux itself).

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N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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