From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 14 8:22:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sol (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D56D14BD8; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:22:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (zzhang@localhost) by sol (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA07837; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:10:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:10:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: "Jason L. Schwab" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading files. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Jason L. Schwab wrote: > > I heard that there is a way to read any file on a freebsd system as a > normal non-root user.. is this true? if so can some one give me some info > on this? thanks. Unless you are root or has somehow gotten the root password. Or you may steal the hard drive and examine it elsewhere. BTW, I know Windows-NT has a feature that does not allow the Administrator (known as root in Unix) to access the file of a normal user. I wonder if this feature can be added to FreeBSD easily. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message