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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Secure floppy filesyetms (was Re: interesting feature on AMIX..)
Message-ID: <-S5CJ31@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <13706@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Jun19.204906.19339@dvorak.amd.com> <1991Jun20.165331.4604@convex.com> <319@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> <1991Jun21.031301.7238@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> <dillon.8977@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 17:35:17 GMT

In article <dillon.8977@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>     There is no way to secure a floppy.  The user could easily put a setuid
>     root executable on it and then it would not really matter *where* it
>     is mounted.

There should be a file system type that doesn't allow special files.

If this was AmigaDOS, Matt Dillon would have written a handler for it
in the time it takes me to type this message, but UNIX is a mite more
complex.

How about it, Commodore? You could sell it twice... once on AMIX, and
once to SCO for their next secure product.
-- 
Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180;
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012;         `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"