[2775] in bugtraq
Re: BoS: amodload.tar.gz - dynamic SunOS modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Riggins Mark.Riggins@att.com)
Fri Jun 21 16:01:29 1996
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:51:16 -0400
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From: "Mark Riggins Mark.Riggins@att.com" <mdr@vodka.sse.att.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <199606210232.MAA25871@cabramurra.anu.edu.au> from "Markus
Zellner" at Jun 21, 96 12:32:46 pm
> Markus Zellner | IT Security Support Officer | Markus.Zellner@anu.edu.au
> Does anyone have a list of issues that stop /
> and /usr being mounted read only (either logically or physically, or on
> read only media) on a machine running say Solaris ? I'll start off the
> list with the following.
>
There was a good discussion of this on the firewalls mailing list
about 6 months ago. I believe that it is doable but not easy. BSD
offers something similar called immutable files. This is IMO a pretty
good feature but not as good as a physically jumpered RO filesystem.
Mark
