On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 01:58:40PM -0400, Brandon High wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:06:46AM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > > If I r00t your system I'll have access to remount it rw anyhow. Any > > "hacker" who doesn't know how to remount a file system is really lame. > > You may slow someone down for 3 seconds until they type: > > It'll stop a worm or automated intrusion though...
Maybe not...A worm may write itself to somewhere it has access (not /tmp, that gets cleared...) and then place a cron entry to start itself. -- Phillip Hofmeister PGP/GPG Key: http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ wget -O - http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/key.txt | gpg --import -- Excuse #226: Due to the CDA we no longer have a root account.
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