amiga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul) (06/28/91)
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? Paul -- ACK!!!! -Bill the Cat Amiga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu .....Paul......
lron@easy.lrcd.com (Dwight Hubbard) (06/29/91)
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 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------