On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:00:03AM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:55:29 -0600 > Derek Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Additionally, if your work desktop is shared, i.e. other users can log > > into it over the network, doing this will enable ANYONE to access all > > your files on the usb disk. From their desktop. Without you knowing. > > How is this at all different from FAT32 or exFAT?
It's very different. With a FAT filesystem, the OS gives you the option to specify the UID/GUID to mount with, so YOU DO NOT NEED TO MAKE THE FILES WORLD READABLE/WRITABLE. AFAIK you can't do that with any other writable filesystem. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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