Aw: Re: Drive mapping of Z:

[schollsky at arcor.de]

Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> Molle Bestefich wrote:
> > Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> > 
> >> Disabling the Z:\ drive won't help security
> > 
> > 
> > in THEORY...
> > 
> >> because windows applications can still do Linux syscalls
> >> (int 0x80) which they can use do do anything native
> >> apps do, like accessing files outside wine drive mappings.
> > 
> > 
> > But in PRACTICE, it would help a lot to hinder total system
> > destruction once viruses start running correctly on Wine.
> > 
> > (Especially for users like me, who always runs Wine as the root user
> ;-).)
> That's plain wrong. I guess Wine needs a patch to make it stop working
> as uid 0 ...

D'accord.