From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 7 01:06:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DFC316A4CF for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 01:06:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0340E43D4C for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 01:06:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([82.161.136.218]:10033 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CxxMG-0002nU-RH for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 01:06:32 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79526154493 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 02:07:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.111] (82-197-198-30.dsl.cambrium.nl [82.197.198.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACA93701F for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 02:06:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4206BF14.6010304@scii.nl> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 02:06:28 +0100 From: albi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050123) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20050207005326.CA2D2C018@postfix3-2.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <20050207005326.CA2D2C018@postfix3-2.free.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD is dangerous ! X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 01:06:34 -0000 Fabrice wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 5.3. > When I mount_ext2fs my Linux partitions on the same computer, > FreeBSD give me access to them in R/WRITE mode without needing any password ! if you mount FreeBSD from Linux, it will only mount it read-only, does that make Linux less dangerous ? ;-) this behavior is pretty normal, from a Linux or FreeBSD installation you can easily mount a FAT-partition read/write on the same machine if you're interested in security maybe this webpage is interesting to read : http://www.defcon1.org/html/Security/Secure-Guide/secure-guide.html