[48234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Yen)
Sat May 25 02:56:17 2002
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 19:04:57 -0400
From: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>
To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0205232135450.30086-100000@www.everquick.net>; from E.B. Dreger on Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:38:18AM +0000
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On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:38:18AM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> BSD enforces append-only when running proper securelevel. AFAIK,
> Linux lacks this attribute, and root can disable the so-called
> "immutable" attrib.
i think that modern linuxes have both of these capabilities,
but they need to be compiled into the kernel (they're actually
called "capabilities", as in capability.h), so they're cumbersome
to use.
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Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
