On Tuesday 19 November 2002 23.20, Tom Emerson wrote:
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 11:03, Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello SuSE folkz, I'm going to setup a secure file server. If somebody tries to mount secure filesystem without permission all attempts should fail.
This is a kind of "correct me if I'm wrong, but..." response: if /etc/fstab doesn't have "user" in the options, only "root" will be able to mount said
/etc/fstab doesn't control mounts from remote systems. He's talking about a file server.
partition (secure or otherwise) this is also an "all or nothing" response -- offhand I'm not sure how to specify a particular NON-root account can "mount" the partition (i.e., once you specify "user", then ALL users can mount it)
Look at the "owner" option
In the early days of personal computing, there were attempts to "copy protect" floppies by using hacked drivers that wrote "weak bits" or "slightly-off-center" tracks [this was mostly on the Apple computer]
On the C-64, the most popular scheme I saw involved introducing read errors on the floppies, that "normal" copy programs wouldn't touch.