Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought that Windows had no security at all. Until today.
But first things first : I don't have Windows on my box. In no way, manner, shape or form. Only Mandrake 9.0. Well, a modification is needed here : My box is set up with 4 users : My ever-beloved wife, my two daughters and the man himself. (Our two cats use it as well, but only because it's a nice, warm place to take a nap). We respect each others privacy. Accordingly the security-level is set to *high*. We can't peep into each others stuff. Fine. But we have a lot in common. We have various family-related stuff, letters, and the family photo-album. Now, the last time the *sysadmin* (me) installed Mandrake he wanted to show off : creating a *common* partition on the 80 GB drive. In fact, besides the usual / , swap and /home partitions - all ReiserFS - he created a fourth : a FAT32 partition (/dev/hda4). The reason for FAT32 (VFAT) was simple : a Windows-FS. No permission issues, no security at all, free access to everyone, everything in public, belly-up. Surprise, surprise. Initially everything was perfect, but after a few weeks the FAT32 partition seems to close its *Gates*. - Normally it would have *dwrxrwxrwx* permissions, meaning that it was showing off nude in public. But maybe it's getting shy : now the permission are *dwrxr-xr-x*, meaning that only root (me again) can write to it. That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to become root and change the permissions by issuing the command : chmod 777 * . Guess what ? : No effect at all ! Then : chmod u+w * ...... : Operation not permitted !!!! And so on and so forth. Conclusion : Bill Gates finally found a way to defeat even a linux - ROOT. At least on my box. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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