From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HKfbI-0006nC-9a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:57:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1NIt8Sg001808; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:55:08 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1NIlB6E023931 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:47:11 GMT Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498E876ED for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:47:10 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:47:05 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked??? Message-ID: <20070223184705.7c47cfc9@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <49bf44f10702101827k199bf270yfb65ed1f4f5195e0@mail.gmail.com> <1171165124.381.9.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <49bf44f10702221534p2fd8fbd7u7a3d7c3f68b51893@mail.gmail.com> <20070223005120.2a917517@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2cvs64 (GTK+ 2.10.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_1LVqF2cAk0F0CWBM.2eoklh; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: be78b620-70a2-49b5-a07e-2463ce6997bb X-Archives-Hash: 5a43bdb1ce99b7860978644ac744cd75 --Sig_1LVqF2cAk0F0CWBM.2eoklh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:48:59 +0300, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: > > Not unless you have the vmware directory mounted within the guest OS. > > The VM cannot access filesystems on the host unless they are created > > as disks on the VM or network mounted. > This is correct, but if the virtual machine is on the same network as > the host, then it is posible to get the VM, than the host, and finally > to delete the VM. True, but then you'd need to crack SSH or use some other method to get a login on the host machine. If you're going to all that trouble, I think you'd do more than delete the guest OS files. --=20 Neil Bothwick If you think that you can truncate my sig to 75 chars, then you can just fu --Sig_1LVqF2cAk0F0CWBM.2eoklh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF3zauum4al0N1GQMRArvoAJ4v0fqVkE5c943/6XBrKzQ4ddPgGgCfSaIP yESeNWB9sdWLyUgh8/7yLng= =8/LA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_1LVqF2cAk0F0CWBM.2eoklh-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list