You remount it, or you umount it and change the read/write tab on the actual floppy? If you just remount as read/write, remember that if a cracker gets root access they can do it just as easily as you could to forge entries on the disc. Ryan On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:04:30AM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > Of course. I'd have to burn a CDROM or something. But it's something > > I've been meaning to find out about, just in case... > > I have a CD-R drive, but I don't use it for AIDE. Instead, I keep my > (otherwise-unused) floppy drive with an AIDE floppy in it always mounted > as read-only. When I need to update the AIDE database, I re-mount the > floppy as read-write, make the update, then remount it as read-only. > This leaves the CD-R free for other tasks (like backups) but keeps the > AIDE database relatively safe. > > KEN > > -- > Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@ieee.org> > Personal Homepage: http://www.skyjammer.com/~pronovic/ > "The phrase, 'Happy as a clam' has never really held much meaning for me." > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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