--- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr 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
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