Amiga mounting a unix drive Security.

[Dwight Hubbard]

In article <51346 at ut-emx.uucp> amiga at 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.

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