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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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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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Can UNIX Domain Sockets be locked by user ID?
If I created a folder /tmp/me with permissions 700, and started a process under me that starts a listen socket under /tmp/me/socket.
I currently assume that a connection to that socket originated ...
