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In <58shbs$1ut@nef.ens.fr>, guillaum@allege.ens.fr (Florent Guillaume) writes:
>In article <32b2868f.79162799@news.alt.net>,
>Zachary Bedell <aramis@capital.net> wrote:
>> >You don't.  MS-Wind'95 has no software that will recognize any Linux-
>> >native file system.
>> 
>> Yeah, but it's doable.  My programming isn't good enough, but you
>> could do a Win95 Installable File System to give complete support for
>> ext2.
>
>I'd start to do it immediately if I could get some documentation about
>IFS and Win95 drivers...  Unfortunately this seems to be only available
>to subscribers of the MSDN, which cost money.
>
>Anyone has some documentation ?

No, but here's a Feature Request:

I think all such software should insist on being given the address for the
/and ought to know about /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow, and any
nifty PAM stuff that creeps up. When you want to attach to _any_ ext2 part
it ought to prompt for username/passwd and verify this before mount. After
mount it should only allow access that that user would have under Linux.
Hopefully it would allow mounting non-root parts also, e.g. mount /home as
"peterw", and not mount / at all so I can use my Linux files under the
hostile OS, whether NT, OS/2, 95, or whatever.

These fs drivers only make me wish even more that the whole blasted 
filespace was encrypted somehow. The simplest way to do this would 
then make it difficult to boot/reboot without a pass phrase... any thoughts?

-Peter

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