Re: read only root partition

2000-09-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 02:16:58PM +0200, Raphael Bauduin wrote: > Hi, > > yes, I know that root can remount the partition in read/write. However, with > LIDS, it's possible to limit access to commands, even for root. So the root > partition would be read-only and would stay like that. Access t

Re: read only root partition

2000-09-29 Thread Raphael Bauduin
Hi, yes, I know that root can remount the partition in read/write. However, with LIDS, it's possible to limit access to commands, even for root. So the root partition would be read-only and would stay like that. Access to Lilo would also be limited. /var could be noexec so any filed copied to

Re: read only root partition

2000-09-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:25:02PM +0200, Raphael Bauduin wrote: > Hi! > > I want to install debian on a computer, where only the /var partition would > be writeable. Has anyone of you done it? Any advice? > > The possible problems: > [problems snipped] why exactly do you want to do this? its

read only root partition

2000-09-29 Thread Raphael Bauduin
Hi! I want to install debian on a computer, where only the /var partition would be writeable. Has anyone of you done it? Any advice? The possible problems: Some programs want to have write access to /etc to work properly. Putting a link to /var/etc/file from /etc/file should work. /dev needs