[Gllug] Securing XP

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:13:39AM +0100, John wrote:
> > This now adds the Security tab within the folder Properties interface and the 
> > Sharing tab of the root file system of a drive shows the available setting 
> > options. Sharing the root directory is probably a very bad idea.
> 
> It seems to be shared by default (as C$) and Windows is very reluctant
> to let you change it.

Ordinarily, that share is only visible to domain administrators, so it
is not so insecure as you are making out.  If it has wider permissions
in this instance, that would normally indicate human intervention.

-- 
Bruce

I am now a little wary of bananas.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 261 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/attachments/20050404/3f2f7764/attachment.pgp>
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug