Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 15:41:48 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: wsanchez@apple.com Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>, Conrad Minshall <conrad@apple.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems Message-ID: <37FC40AC.2205C7DF@newsguy.com> References: <199910070019.RAA09580@scv1.apple.com>
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Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: > > | While it is certainly true that a person could eventually get > physical > | access into the machine, it is a significantly more difficult > task and > | therefore a significant distinction still exists between the > data stored > | on the hard drive and stored in, say, a floppy. > > This is becoming less and less true. One of the driving reasons > why we're trying to work out this issue is FireWire. At some point, > you might expect a computer that uses FireWire for both the internal > and external drives, and the kernel isn't necessarily going to be > able to know what's "locked inside" the computer vs what's outside > the computer; it's (possibly) all one big hot-swappable bus. Your > root device could certainly live outside the box. Distinguishing > "easily removeable" isn't the way to go here. As I pointed out, the distinction is one of intent on the part of the admin. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself a little more?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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