Re: read-only root and usr partitions

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> It's best for now to mount root for write and /usr read-only. Under
> normal operations I think the files in /etc are only written at
> system start-up and shut-down (and during backups) and it might be
> possible to have root read-only at other times. The _dates_ in /dev
> are changed but the actual files are not except for the case of named
> pipes or unix-domain sockets

... and the ownerships of /dev/tty*


-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/


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