Okay, can we stop with the flamefest, already ? Comments below... Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >>On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: >>>Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >>>>On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: >>>>>Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >>>>>>On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>>>Wrong again. If tmp is the only place somebody can write, then >>>it might save you (and it DID save my ass more than once now). >> >>since /tmp is not the only place where someone can write (/var/tmp anyone?) Several more indeed. Find comes to the rescue: 12087 0 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 40 Jan 10 22:40 /dev/shm 252744 0 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 72 Apr 20 2005 /var/spool/samba Yes, I CAN make files there, as a regular user. >>if he has enough rights, that you have to worry about rw /usr, he has enough >>rights, to circumvent ro mounting by remounting. No, that is also not true. Just to satisfy everyone's curiosity, look at what find comes up with: 1210021 0 drwxrwxr-x 2 lp lp 416 Aug 26 16:44 /usr/share/foo2zjs/crd 128775 21 drwxrwsr-x 4 root portage 21968 Feb 8 10:58 /usr/portage/distfiles And I'm _only_ looking at directories now, not even files... >>yes really, you have to remount /usr everytime you update something. > > Jaja. You know, your exaggerations become boring... Well, no. It is correct. How do you expect to install something when /usr is mounted RO ? <snipped the rest of the ''argument''...> Maarten -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list