How can hide a drive using FSFD ?

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1

Hi,

I am trying to have a upper filter driver that is able
to filter all access to storage devices.
I want to do:
a. Hide the drive letters from the user so he doesn’t
see them at all(either by explorer or by command
prompt )?
b.Protect the drives no one can access both read/write
?
c. Only kernel level driver can communicate with that
drive(read / write)?

please give me apreciable solution.
Thank you in advance for your advice.

regards,
Rakesh

#1. >#2. Let him see the drive letters, but prevent
the volumes from
mounting?
#3. Allow the volumes to mount, and let him see files
and directories,
but prevent him from opening files?

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Rakesh Yadav wrote:

I am trying to have a upper filter driver that is able
to filter all access to storage devices.
I want to do:
a. Hide the drive letters from the user so he doesn’t
see them at all(either by explorer or by command
prompt )?
b.Protect the drives no one can access both read/write
?
c. Only kernel level driver can communicate with that
drive(read / write)?

please give me apreciable solution.
Thank you in advance for your advice.


I am continuously astonished at the money people are willing to throw
way on problems like this, to try to restrict what a user can do, but
without using the extensive and flexible security features of the
operating system itself. What’s the point of this? You can’t possibly
put something like this in a commercial product, because some hacker
will have broken the security and exposed your file system within the
first week. If you are attempting to handcuff your own people, I have
to believe that the solution is in education, not in creating an
expensive and unreliable maintenance nightmare.

I see way too many questions on this list and the kernel newsgroups that
are clearly the result of some second level manager who had a brainstorm
in an executive meeting on a way to solve a personnel problem in
entirely the wrong way.

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This task should be easy and done as below:

  1. Dismount drives which you want to monitor or take control of.
    You will obviously need admin priviledge
  2. Install your filter driver
  3. Now create your own disk device objects in the filter driver
  4. Assign drive letters to those objects.
    5 Send requests down (only after authentication) for each of those
    disk device objects.

Ramesh Ahuja
Inventor of Jumpdrive Secure Technology (Patent Pending)
http://winfs.tripod.com

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:08:02 -0800 (PST), Rakesh Yadav
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to have a upper filter driver that is able
> to filter all access to storage devices.
> I want to do:
> a. Hide the drive letters from the user so he doesn’t
> see them at all(either by explorer or by command
> prompt )?
> b.Protect the drives no one can access both read/write
> ?
> c. Only kernel level driver can communicate with that
> drive(read / write)?
>
> please give me apreciable solution.
> Thank you in advance for your advice.
>
> regards,
> Rakesh
>
> >#1. >#2. Let him see the drive letters, but prevent
> the volumes from
> >mounting?
> >#3. Allow the volumes to mount, and let him see files
> and directories,
> >but prevent him from opening files?
> >
>
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