On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, Calyth wrote:
I would like to try to telnet (or ssh, if I could set it up) so that I could access it at school, but I'm also allowing friends to check the place out (they have no write access except for the HOME directory). But I ran to a problem because I don't want my friends to see most (but not all) of my mounted DOS partition. Does anyone have any idea how to change the group of files mounted as a DOS partition? I don't want to add myself to the group root because this could be a source to breech my system.
Unfortunately, AFAIK Linux security on a DOS partition is one-size-fits-all. ("All", in the apparel industry, is a technical term meaning "not you".) This is a side effect of the fact that DOS/Win9x simply does not have meaningful security. So it looks like all you can do is copy the files (or establish symlinks) to a Linux directory where you apply proper security. However, if you're going to use symlinks, do it on a file by file basis. I think if you establish a symlink to a DOS directory, your friends could switch to that directory and then just move up the directory tree to the root of the DOS partition. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/