andrew@teslab.lab.OZ (Andrew Phillips) (06/11/91)
To access the DOS partition on a hard disk requires changing the protection on /dev/hd00 (or /dev/hd01 for the second hard disk). I believe that since this device is the whole of the hard disk and (presumably) has Xenix filesystems on it this will allow anybody to access any file in these filesystems. For example, we have /dev/hd00 readable by all so that VP/ix users can read files on it. This would mean that a knowledgeable user could read any file on that drive which includes the root filesystem. Worse still would be if you wanted to allow anyone to write to the DOS partition - you would have to make /dev/hd00 writeable by all. I would appreciate any clarification. -- Andrew Phillips (andrew@teslab.lab.oz.au) Phone +61 (Aust) 2 (Sydney) 289 8712