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Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?



Russell Coker writes:
> My suggestion to make a minor change to the file naming scheme under
> /usr/share to make things easier for SE Linux was shot down even though
> it would take very little effort to implement.  This ro-root idea takes
> considerably more work to implement and I think that it provides
> considerably less benefit.

R/o root also provides a degree of protection against buggy programs and
admin errors.  I prefer to minimize the number of r/w partitions.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI



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