--- Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Hiji wrote: > [...] > > Here's something to add into the mix... > > > > I'm not quite sure how other Linux distros work, > but > > Sun's JDS mounts any Windows partitions under > > /windows/[drive letter] . IIRC, Wine makes drive > Z > > the root. So, a virus theoretically could go > through > > each drive, eventually hit Z drive, and then from > > there, get to the Windows partitions -- that is, > if > > the partitions are Fat32, it can do damage. > > It seems you're just repeating what Mike Hearn said > and ignoring what he > and I said about non-root users not necessarily > having write access to > the Windows partition. It's a bit irritating because > that last part is > exactly what I was trying to pointing out. > Apparently I failed :-( > > Now you may have been confused by the fat32 thing. > But under Linux if > you mount a fat32 partition with all defaults then > only root can write > to it. If you want other users to have write to it, > then you have to > use the appropriate mount options to set the umask, > user and group just > right. > > Do man mount and look for uid, gid and umask in the > 'Mount options for > fat' section.
No need to get irritated. I did read the posts, and was reconfirming the topic about Z drive. My appologies as I probably wasn't as clear as I should have been. So, let me elaborate. Sun's JDS R2 (based on a hybrid of Suse 8.1/8.2 -- essentially Suse SLEC) is marketed and created for the basic end-user. Essentially, someone who doesn't know anything about Linux, but needs the basics of an office setting: word processing, email client, browser, etc. That said, the JDS does a lot of stuff for you. By default, it automounts windows partitions so basically anyone can write to them (root or not). In this case, with this specific distro, a virus would have write access to that partition. I don't mount anything, the distro does... Not only that, chances are that a general JDS user out there in the real world wouldn't know where to start to change permissions ... much less know what "man" is. ;) Hope that helps! Hiji __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
