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Are file permissions set in Unix/Linux effective in Windows or Any other OS?
Consider some files and folder in Unix/Linux OS which are configured for only read access by root, if the hard drive stolen, and used in Windows Environment, are these permissions are still effective?
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Security purpose of asking admin password to mount partition on Linux
So I divided my 250GB laptop drive into 2 partitions and some swap. On the second partition which is an ext4 60GB partition I installed Fedora 17. On the other bigger NTFS partition I've got Win XP ...
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Is the mount manpage saying nosuid *is* secure, or is *not*?
I'm a bit confused about the description of nosuid in the mount manpage on this RedHat system I'm setting up:
nosuid Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to
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Could browsers improve security of stored passwords by using setuid?
On Unix-esque systems, Mozilla Firefox stores a users' preferences, web history and stored passwords in a set of files that are readible and writeable by that particular user.
This makes sense: when ...
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What are the dangers of storing webserver temp files in the /tmp/ folder?
I have configured my first publicly accessible nginx server. I have configured it to use a /tmp/nginx folder to store temp files. This includes the body of http requests, proxy files etc. The /tmp ...
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What prevents this exploit from working (unix SUID)?
If I have a user on a unix system where Im allowed to create new files, what prevents me from downloading an executable file onto that system which is already SUID'ed to root on a different system?
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