> I'm trying to make my Soekris net4801 boot OpenBSD 4.0 with / mounted > read-only. I've put everything in /var and /tmp on an mfs partition. > This works fine. > > The problem is that when I attempt to ssh to the box then the > connection > is dropped immediately after having been authenticated. > > So sshd must attempt to write to some file on the ro mounted disk, but > which one?
Did you check the /var/log/auth? Do you have a rw /dev?