On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:39 am, Rony Bill wrote: > 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,
Check on the net for privilege escalation. > so the chances of a virus writing itself to the c:\windows\ or > c:\windows\system32\ folders is practically eliminated. don't be fooled even for a second. > 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. NTFS module by default is compiled without write. Recompile the module with rw. W A R N I N G experimental. > 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/ Captive uses the native drivers. U still need a licenced copy of windows. But it does work. -- rgds jtd -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
