On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:34:12AM +0200, Tarjei Huse wrote:

> The Securing Debian manual suggest one should set the /usr partition to
> ro and use remount when you install new programs. 
> I was just wondering how much security one gains with this. Wouldn't
> most hackers go after the programs in the /bin and /sbin directories
> anyway?

A read-only /usr is not a security measure.

-- 
 - mdz


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