RE²: FreeBSD is dangerous!

[Fabrice]

>> I installed FreeBSD 5.3.
>> When I mount_ext2fs my Linux partitions on the same computer,
>> FreeBSD give me access to them in R/WRITE mode without needing any password

ImobachGonzalez Sosa replied to me :

>What's wrong with that?

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

albi wrote :
> if you mount FreeBSD from Linux, it will only mount it read-only, does 
> that make Linux less dangerous ? ;-)
I do not have tested cos I'm not able up to now to mount the FreeBSD 
filesystem (UFS ?) on my Debian Linux. I asked how to perform this on the 
french Linux Forum Léa-Linux 

http://lea-linux.org/pho/

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 ?

> this behavior is pretty normal, from a Linux or FreeBSD installation you
> can easily mount a FAT-partition read/write on the same machine
Yes, Linux do this with FAT but that doesn't hurt me because I couldn't care 
less than Micro$oft vfat...

> if you're interested in security maybe this webpage is interesting to read :
> http://www.defcon1.org/html/Security/Secure-Guide/secure-guide.html
Thank you Albi ! I've a lot to learn about security.

Regards

Fabrice.