Re: Security

[aphro <nate@firetrail.com>]

best way is to get a drive that physically supports read only via a
jumper, or some bios's support setting the drive in read only mode.(ive
seen this feature on some single board computers ive been testing)

many scsi drives have a jumper on them for read only operation. software
read only is easily defeated. im not sure how easily (if its possible) to
defeat bios level read only access..i figure its not possible to defeat
hard coded read onlya ccess on a drive via a jumper though.

nate

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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Evan Moore wrote:

> My workplace has a webserver, that for now is attatched to the rest of the
> network, we are tightening up our security, firstly by moving the web
> server off of the network. We are also concidering the
> possibility of attatching a second computer to the web server via serial
> port to act as a loging machine, and then make the web server a read only
> system. How may a person make a read only system. Would mounting the drive
> ro do the trick, or would it be easy for someone to remount the system rw. 
> 
> Thanks
> Evan 
> 
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