On Jun 26, 12:00 am, fuherb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I am using Picasa3 for Linux. > I note that the default wine driver map used by Picasa is to map the > Z: drive to my / (root) directory. I feel a bit unsecure as this open > up the system folders to wine.
There are two things to remember here: 1) even if / were not mapped to a drive letter, the app would still have full access to / via linux system calls. Wine drive mappings are not a secure sandbox. If you want to sandbox an app, you'll have to use a stronger method, like a chroot jail. 2) The copy of Wine in Picasa3 for Linux is not invoked for anything but Picasa3. The attack surface is fairly small; I can't think of anything offhand other than Picasa's use of wine's web browser, e.g. to access third party print providers. > I tried to modified the link of Z: to a photo folder in my /home/user > directory. But with that picasa will not start. If I remove the Z: > link completely, then once I start picasa again, the Z: link is mapped > again automatically to /. > Anyway I can modifiy the mapping of Z: and still use Picasa and feel a > bit more secured? You could use Picasa for Windows on vanilla Wine; then you'll have more control over the Z: mapping. I don't think that really adds much security, though. - Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
