On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:39 am, Rony Bill wrote:
Hello All,
Recently switched over to ntfs in windows just to explore its security level and was quite impressed by its similarity to linux. It gives only r-x access to the windows dir to unpreviledged users,
Check on the net for privilege escalation.
so the chances of a virus writing itself to the c:\windows\ or c:\windows\system32\ folders is practically eliminated.
don't be fooled even for a second.
The next issue was mounting the ntfs partition in linux. It got mounted easily without any hassles ( Kubuntu 5.10 ) but it was read only. No amount of tweaking the mount defaults changed it.
NTFS module by default is compiled without write. Recompile the module with rw. W A R N I N G experimental.
Then I found this utility that I installed and now I am able to mount as well as write to the ntfs partition even as a user by simply replacing the file system type in fstab from 'ntfs' to 'captive-ntfs'. http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
Captive uses the native drivers. U still need a licenced copy of windows. But it does work.