Hello All,
Recently switched over to ntfs in windows just to explore its security
level and was quite impressed by its similarity to linux. It gives only r-x
access to the windows dir to unpreviledged users, so the chances of a
virus writing itself to the c:\windows\ or c:\windows\system32\ folders
is practically eliminated. One user cannot view the other's documents.
The next issue was mounting the ntfs partition in linux. It got mounted
easily without any hassles ( Kubuntu 5.10 ) but it was read only. No
amount of tweaking
the mount defaults changed it. Then I found this utility that I
installed and now I am able to mount as well as write to the ntfs
partition even as a user by simply replacing the file system type in
fstab from 'ntfs' to 'captive-ntfs'.
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
Regards,
Rony.
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