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WUBI Ubuntu 8.04, access permissions on "/host" folder cannot be changed

Asked by Georgios Kolomvos

I have installed Wubi Ubuntu 8.04 on the 12 computers of a school laboratory and i would like to change the access permissions of the folder that has all the "windows XP" files, so that the students that login, will not be able to make any damages to the windows system of the computers.
I tried to "chmod 700 /host" but although it seems that the command is executed correctly, the permissions of the folder are not changed. I also tried to change the owner from "root" to "my_user_name" (with chown) but happened the same result (it seemed that the command was executed but the owner remained "root"). The same happened when i tried to change the permissions and the owner to subfolders of "/host".

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Agostino Russo (ago) said : 		#1

You might have to pass them as a kernel boot parameter in menu.lst via rootflags=YOURMOUNTOPTIONS

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Georgios Kolomvos (kolomvosg) said : 		#2

Agostino, thank you for your answer, but unfortunately, i have never used the parameter "rootflags" again and although i googled a little about it, i was not able to find how could i use "rootflags" in menu.lst to solve the problem i have with wubi and permissions on "/host".

Could you please give me some more information about it or suggest a website where i could find related information?

Anyway, I think that this is a problem of WUBI that should be resolved. Wubi users should not have full access on the windows system files that reside at "/host". This drawback could certainly discourage system administrators from installing it in computers that are publicly accessed (like in schools, universities, etc).

Thank you very much for whatever you do

Georgios Kolomvos
School teacher
Patras, Greece

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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