Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-14 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:59:16AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > It seems you want to install *BSD and just flag most of your > configuration nochg. in linux, e2fsprogs have chattr and lsattr (I have not checked for other filesystems, but I expect that some of the other filesystems, but not all, hav

Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-13 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Responding to the OP's original question (sorry, no longer have the message), Voyage Linux is a Debian derivation for use on flash storage which by default sets the root filesystem to read-only. A few exceptions such as /var are mounted under tempfs and so run in memory. The idea is to minimize wr

Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-13 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:30:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> The trouble is that isn't really true. As long as you have standard >>> utilities like 'passwd' and 'chsh' normal users can cause the root >>> filesystem to

Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-13 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:30:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > The trouble is that isn't really true. As long as you have standard > > utilities like 'passwd' and 'chsh' normal users can cause the root > > filesystem to be modified any time they want.. > > No. The user isn't modifying