Re: Tripwire

[Eugene Tyurin <eugene_tyurin@yahoo.com>]

Long time ago I was told that read-only floppies are not exactly safe.

Early fd drives used read-only tab as a physical circuit-breaker,
but nowadays everything is done through BIOS.  So, theoretically,
one can write onto a write-protected floppy.  Is this correct?

--ET.


On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:47:10AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:

> The idea is to have the database somewhere where Evil Hackers(tm) can't
> get to it. How you do it depends on your level of paranoia: from simply
> chattr +i /usr/lib/tripwire/databases/tw.db (lax security) to storing 
> the database on a write-protected floppy, or burning it onto a CDR 
> (paranoid setup). Presumably README refers to the paranoid option.


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