The only thing that the / access gave Klez was (potentially) more files to harvest email addresses from. As far as drive access, the author was much more concerned about having write access to the home directory. If anybody is interested, here is the article:
http://articles.linuxguru.net/view/198
BTW, I do not object to having access to the root drive, but what does a *windows* program really gain from that? Viewing system config files in notepad? ;-> Is it just a solution in search of a problem?
That's the article I read, I don't think there's any reason for having / in the config file, if klez used it, other viruses may use / to infect and spread via linux boxes in the future.
Hello all- Having returned from vacation, I'm back to work on winecfg. In order to do drive autodetection from within the win32 API, I've been using the /etc/fstab file. Of course, this implies that winecfg (a win32 program) needs access to the / directory. Talk about mixing your metaphors... Anyway, winecfg needs to fopen( "/etc/fstab",...) so Wine needs to provide access to /. As things currently stand, anyway. My impression is that we'll have to rely on Unix security measures to prevent programs from over-running stuff they shouldn't, which is what we're currently doing anyway. That's why you shouldn't run wine as root. My impression is that / access is necessary for an effective winecfg and desirable in many other cases, as well (opening arbitrary Linux files in Windows programs). Now, if we want winecfg to create separate users for running Wine with limited access or some such, it could be discussed, but it seems like far too much complexity to worry about right now.
Summary: "/" access in Wine is good.
Patrick
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 11:27, puoti wrote:
The only thing that the / access gave Klez was (potentially) more files to harvest email addresses from. As far as drive access, the author was much more concerned about having write access to the home directory. If anybody is interested, here is the article:
http://articles.linuxguru.net/view/198
BTW, I do not object to having access to the root drive, but what does a *windows* program really gain from that? Viewing system config files in notepad? ;-> Is it just a solution in search of a problem?
That's the article I read, I don't think there's any reason for having / in the config file, if klez used it, other viruses may use / to infect and spread via linux boxes in the future.
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Patrick Griffin -
puoti