Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 22 Mar 2003 9:51 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 22 March 2003 10:30 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 21 Mar 2003 11:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 21 March 2003 11:38 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Anne, when I edited fstab to include umask=0 0 0 the problem went away. Kaj

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-22 Thread Frank Bax
At 12:49 AM 3/22/03, David E. Fox wrote: That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to=20 become root and change the permissions by issuing the=20 command : chmod 777 * . That's because FAT32 doesn't implement permissions the same way - so a chmod wouldn't have any effect, and

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-22 Thread et
On Saturday 22 March 2003 12:51 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 12:49 AM 3/22/03, David E. Fox wrote: That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to=20 become root and change the permissions by issuing the=20 command : chmod 777 * . That's because FAT32 doesn't implement

[newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
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

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Kaj, Try to pass an scandisk to your windows partition, I had a similar problem long times ago due to disk-error; mandrake couldn't write in the partition but after pass an scandisk windows detected several errors and repaired it. Until that moment mandrake could again write on the windows

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Miark
Kaj, You can't change permisions on VFAT filesystems from the commandline. You have to specify it at mount time. Make sure your fstab entries have umask=0 0 0. Miark On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:08:02 +0100 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 21 March 2003 11:38 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Kaj, Try to pass an scandisk to your windows partition, I had a similar problem long times ago due to disk-error; mandrake couldn't write in the partition but after pass an scandisk windows detected several errors and repaired

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread et
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

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 22 March 2003 12:09 am, Miark wrote: Kaj, You can't change permisions on VFAT filesystems from the commandline. You have to specify it at mount time. Make sure your fstab entries have umask=0 0 0. Miark Thanks Miark - that did the trick ! Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 22 March 2003 12:44 am, et wrote: 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