[NTLUG:Discuss] permissions on 2nd HD

Kelledin kelledin+NTLUG at skarpsey.dyndns.org
Wed Apr 9 20:05:17 CDT 2003


On Wednesday 09 April 2003 06:53 pm, David Ross wrote:
> if i slave a hard drive on my system and that hard drive has
> linux installed will root have full access to the new drive?
> even though it came out of another box and has a different
> root password?

Yes.

The only thing you might have trouble getting is files which
have been encrypted by some unknown key.  Most files aren't
encrypted in such a manner.

--
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does
it still cost four figures to fix?"



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