Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!easy!lron From: lron@easy.lrcd.com (Dwight Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga mounting a unix drive Security. Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 20:52:08 GMT References: <51346@ut-emx.uucp> Organization: You must be talking about someone else. Lines: 22 In article <51346@ut-emx.uucp> amiga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul) writes: > > I have a question about security on an A3000UX. Could an ingenious user >write a device driver that would mount one of the Unix partitions under >amiga dos? This would allow any user to go up to a UX machine, reboot it >under amiga dos and then change ANY files he so chooses! If the device >driver was written properly he could also change protection on any of the >files as well! > >Could this be done? Of course, and a user of Unix on an MS Dos machine could write a program to read/write the Unix partition of his machine from MS-Dos. Any time the user has physical access to the machine and can make it boot from a differnt floppy/hard disk partition there is a potential for this kind of problem. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Dwight Hubbard INTERNET: lron@easy.lrcd.com - -Kaneohe, Hawaii USENET : ...!uunet!easy!lron - - BIX : lron - ----------------------------------------------------------------------