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From: dave@unislc.uucp (Dave Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.213326.22373@unislc.uucp>
Date: 30 Oct 90 21:33:26 GMT
References: <643@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Organization: Unisys, SLC Utah
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From article <643@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>, by ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar):
> UNIX: anybody with a fairly simple program can access *anything* in the
> UNIX partition as long as this program can read sectors from the disk
> under AmigaOS.  The scsi.device (or whatever is being provided) should
> be able to do this nicely, so without much work a file transfer program
> could be written that would lay the UNIX filing system wide open.
> Maybe I've missed something here or made an invalid assumption, but this
> seems a worry to me!

Yes, but this requires access to the console (meaning the hardware and
"main" terminal) directly; many systems allow you to get away with murder
if you are at the console and know what you are
doing.  Of course, being a workstation environment people are going to
have this access so lock up the floppies and make it not possible for
just anyone to boot into amigados.

This presumes that you are more interested in security on the unix side
than in allowing users to use AmigaDOS, and you think one of them
might try accessing the unix partition.  Most mini and mainframe systems
tend to keep the console locked up, or rely on the users not having the
knowledge to "take over".
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