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Mac OS X - Boot Camp Security Oct 04 2006 03:11PM brian clearware org (3 replies) Re: Mac OS X - Boot Camp Security Oct 04 2006 03:46PM Philip Rinehart (philip rinehart yale edu) (1 replies) Re: Mac OS X - Boot Camp Security Oct 04 2006 04:51PM Mark Senior (senatorfrog gmail com) (2 replies) Re: Mac OS X - Boot Camp Security Oct 23 2006 06:25PM David Fedoruk (david fedoruk gmail com) (1 replies) Re: Mac OS X - Boot Camp Security Oct 23 2006 08:56PM Ian Ward Comfort (icomfort rescomp stanford edu) Re: Mac OS X - Boot Camp Security Oct 04 2006 03:30PM steven karel (karelsf gmail com) (1 replies) |
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On Oct 4, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Mark Senior wrote:
>> > In Mac OS X, is it possible to only allow access to the Windows
>> > drive from specified OS X users?
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>> The only option you probably have is to prevent automatic mounting of
>> the partition itself by the Finder. Usually it is accomplished by
>> editing the fstab table. Note, though anyone who knows that the
>> partition exists could mount it.
>
> I'm not sure that that's the case. In 'standard' Unices, only root
> can mount disks. For end-user systems like desktop OS X, desktop
> Linux, and such, removable media is typically set up to be
> auto-mounting. But that wouldn't apply to hard disk partitions.
>
> It may be that OS X is different, I could check later. If you haven't
> verified this, though, I don't think we should assume it...
>
yeah, my statement is a bit wrong I realized after I sent it. The
disk is *mounted*. It is not *browseable* in the Finder, which
doesn't do much for brute forcing the SAM db, etc.
P.
> Regards
> Mark
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