On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:41 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > I got a new laptop three months ago. It came with Windows and thus a > NTFS partition which I only made smaller, but did not remove -- > /dev/sda3 to be precise: > > $ ls -l /dev/sda3 > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 3 14. Sep 16:10 /dev/sda3 FWIW, just doing $ gnome-mount -d /dev/sda3 or double-clicking the appropriate icon it in Nautilus is how it works in Fedora 8. You may need to go through a one-time-pain dialog to enter either your own or the root password. [...] > Which brings me to my questions: Can somebody please explain why the > above it working? Does it mean that if I write my own malicious > fuse.ext3 userspace driver that I can mount each and every block-device > on my system and read or modify the files on it (all by using fuse)? Probably. Someone better fix fuse to not allow this. David -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list