Re: REČ:FreeBSD is dangerous!

From: albi (albi_at_scii.nl)
Date: 02/08/05

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To: Fabrice <FabriceMarchant@free.fr>

    On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:37:53PM +0100, Fabrice wrote:

    > Anybody with a FreeBSD install CD can modify my beloved data I store in my
    > debian Linux partitions.

    anyone with physical access to your computer can do that with a Linux-cd too

    > Of course with a Linux rescue floppy is it possible to behave same naughty
    > way...
    > But, as I told to Joshua Tinnin :
    > "If I remember when I mounted a Linux partition - for example a Debian one -
    > on the ext2/3 filesystem of another Linux or Knoppix, it was only possible to
    > read, not to write on it. But a vfat filesystem could be mounted on R/W mode."
    >

    afaik Knoppix mounts partitions by default read-only if you use the icons on
    the desktop (take a look at the /etc/fstab), but if you manually do :
    a) sudo su -
    b) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
    it will mount it read-write (!)

    > but nobody helped me about this... Please Albi, can you explain to me how to
    > mount the FreeBSD partition on my ext2 or 3 filesystems ?

    an example (with /dev/hda1) how to mount a FreeBSD-slice from Linux :
    mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda1 /mnt/FreeBSD

    you should find out which slice in FreeBSD has the info you'd like to see in
    Linux

    maybe it's interesting for you to look at disk-encryption in either
    FreeBSD or Linux, there's a section about it (for 5.x ?) in the FreeBSD handbook :

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html

    but of course you can start putting a password for the BIOS after disabling
    booting from cdrom and floppy (network etc.)

    HTH

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