martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) (06/02/90)
In article <1990May31.165403.4270@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: >In article <505@al.ele.tue.nl> raymond@ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen) writes: [about crashing unix thru disk accesses from vp/ix] >However, there is another approach you might try. The way you are getting >from vp/ix to the DOS disk is extremely convoluted: first Unix is simulating >Unix files on top of the DOS file system, then vp/ix is using simulated remote >networked DOS files on top of the simulated Unix files on the DOS file system. >vp/ix, being DOS after all, can get to the DOS file system directly. Unmount >the /dos partition and add to your vpix.cnf file a line like > >D /dev/dsk/0p0 Well, if I hear that some DOS *application* can crash my UNIX thru vp/ix, I feel *very* reluctant to give access to my complete harddisk (and to this does "/dev/dsk/0p0" refer) to vp/ix. Related question: What about security issues? Again I feel very reluctant to expose "/dev/dsk/0p0" to some untrusted program. (Well I admit, I'm a little biased against DOS and vp/ix belongs into this category, though I have it installed here.) -- Martin Weitzel, email: martin@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83