From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 14 10:56:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADBD31511B; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:56:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id XAA24061; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:53:44 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id WAA06460; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:21:16 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA00619; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:19:34 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:19:34 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: "Jason L. Schwab" , 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 Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > 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. it can be added easily, use PGP, that was the how i prevented my account at my school to be examined by root. > > -Zhihui > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message