Security

[Praising Jesus]

Well, I am running Windows Vista Ultimate on my machine. I popped in an
additional hard drive and decided to load Ubuntu on that drive. I
downloaded the Ultimate Edition 2.0 (sounds like I have a thing for
Ultimate Editions). In any event, I do a standard install from the disk
(mild problem here, the install program lets me partition the primary
drive to use just the free space left on it - or a part of it, but you
can't do the same thing with a secondary disk. I had to format the whole
disk or go to manual. There should be an option to use partial space on
any disk, not just the primary). However, during the install, it wanted
me to tell it if I wanted to import any of the data from from my Vista
load to Ubuntu. I said yes. Now, here's the security problem - it let me
do it. It didn't ask for a username, no password, no administrator
access - Ubuntu was able to simply download every setting and every file
on my Windows Vista partition. 

Shouldn't that have been inaccessible to Ubuntu? I didn't use bitlocker
or anything, but I thought the files were stored securely and couldn't
beaccessed except through Windows with a username and password. Is
everything visible to Ubuntu on a Windows machine?

---Mike


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