Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:49:09 -0400 From: "Mikhail V. Evstiounin" <evs@telerama.com> To: "Zhihui Zhang" <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, "Jason L. Schwab" <jschwab@royal.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: reading files. Message-ID: <006301beb6c0$802ab090$6f27abcd@mvehpc.evs.slip.lm.com>
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Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> > >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 ???????? It allows to see ownership, take it and read a file, then you can reassign ownership back - this is not very convinient, but... >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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