Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:19:34 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: "Jason L. Schwab" <jschwab@royal.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading files. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906142217510.617-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990614110658.7830A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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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-security" in the body of the message
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