Re: : FAT (in)secure ?

From: Lee Leahu (lee@ricis.com)
Date: 02/28/02 

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:07 -0600
To: <ronald.balk@DEVICEGLOBAL.COM>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
From: Lee Leahu <lee@ricis.com>

Two things come to mind.

First, FAT or FAT32 partitions *do not* support any type of security.

Second, The partition is a lot small by using FAT. you would have to load ntfs drivers, and verify a username / password before allowing access to
that partition if it were NTFS, which means you have to store that code somewhere else....and create a bigger mess.

At 11:02 2002-02-28, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>During the install on my HP Lxr8000 server in noticed that the HP
>Navigator CD creates a diagnotisc FAT partition. One of the first things
>
>todo to secure my W2k/IIS server is to format all partitions NTFS. Just
>wondering how (in)secure this FAT partition is or does anyone know were
>I can find some documentation about it.
>
>
>Kind regards,
>Ronald Balk
>Device Global BV
>+31 23 534 4300
>http://www.deviceglobal.com
>"Device adds innovative & guaranteed value to used IT products, with
>respect for people and the environment".

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