RE: [Dev-C++] (no subject)

[Ioannis V. <iv...@em...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...=20
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf=20
> Of Abhijit Shylanath
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 11:01 PM
> To: ci...@ya...; Dev-C Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] (no subject)
>=20
>=20
>=20
> > Not sure if this still applies but there is a SAM file
> > located somewhere in the system32 directory. Problem with
> > this file is not even an administrator can open it! NT
> > locks it down as soon as it starts (anyone got a NTFS
> > reader?)
> >
>=20
> Yup, reasonably new versions of Linux can read NTFS. from DOS=20
> (freeware,
> untested):
> http://download.com.com/3000-2094-10126096.html
>=20
> You said NT locks the file as soon as it starts, does that extend to
> driver-load time? I mean, by `start' do you mean the=20
> user-visible start or
> the actual kernel load? If not, one could theoretically write=20
> a fake driver
> that can access the file. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows=20
> had a hole like
> that.


A file-system by itself does not potect anything. The access properties =
of
files and folders make sense only when you access them through the =
specific
OS. So NTFS can be read by other Oses, the same as ext2fs and other file
systems of GNU/Linux. When I couldn't login to Win2K in the past because
some application messed up the OS I did not lose my files. I =
reinstallled
Win2k without reformating the drive, I was getting my files to a CD and =
then
made a clean install (with formatting of the HDD).

The same things apply to all OSes including GNU/Linux. If you want to =
secure
your files against theft you have to encrypt them, either using a
third-party program or facilities of the OS.

NTFS in Windows 2000 and later provides the ability for encryption using =
a
key randomly produced for each account. Programs that reset the password
from the outside by deleting or editing some file (I do not know the OS
internals) have also aas a result that key to be erased so files =
encrypted
via EFS (the encryption part of NTFS) from that user account become
unaccessible.






Ioannis Vranos
=20
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