From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jun 14 16:52: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ivory.lm.com (ivory.telerama.com [205.201.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC7A814CB4; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evs@telerama.com) Received: from mvehpc (d15-12.dyn.telerama.com [205.201.42.76]) by ivory.lm.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA17396; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:50:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <006301beb6c0$802ab090$6f27abcd@mvehpc.evs.slip.lm.com> Reply-To: "Mikhail V. Evstiounin" From: "Mikhail V. Evstiounin" To: "Zhihui Zhang" , "Jason L. Schwab" Cc: , Subject: Re: reading files. Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:49:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Zhihui Zhang > >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