On Friday 21 March 2003 05:08 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > 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. were you changing permissions on the fils? try changing the mount points (ie. chmod 777 /mnt/fatpartitionnamegoeshere -- Linux counter number 167806
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