A very big thanks
--
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- -
- Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us -
- Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100-
- +1 (443)
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Fred Noz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In addition to easy maintenance, readonly-root adds a layer of security.
The security is broken if someone gains access to the root user, but
then many security protections are lost if someone gains root.
However, this should
Linux wrote:
However, this should *never* be used alone for security concerns. A
compromiser can easily run that simple mount command to remount
read-write after root access.
I've been reading some of your recent comments, Anonymous looser, and
I've really got to say this - you seem to make
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been reading some of your recent comments, Anonymous looser, and
I've really got to say this - you seem to make some authoritative style
comments on things you really dont know much about. eg. in this case -
the
Linux wrote:
A cd-rom can provide security as a readonly mount, but readonly
mounted ordinary filesystem/disk means almost nothing. Dont you read
comments like administrator remounts read-write? Why?
If your blockdev is exposed to the OS as 'ro', your administator can go
jump off a cliff if he
On Saturday 24 May 2008 12:05:30 Fred Noz wrote:
Responding to a question posted earlier this month, Centos 5.1 includes
configuration files for enabling the read-only root filesystem.
Actually, all filesystems can be mounted read-only with particular files
and directories mounted on a
I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition.
Any recommendations?
Why bother with a hard drive at all? Customize a Live CD/DVD and remove
the hard drive alltogether.
Barry
___
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@centos.org
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition.
Any recommendations?
You'll need to break out your hard drive into multiple partitions, as
there are certain portions of the file system that need to
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Barry Brimer
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 8:21 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] read only root file system
I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap
partition
in the /etc/fstab
define ro in the permissions field of the entry where the / partition is
defined
- Original Message -
From: Brett Serkez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] read only root file system
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brett Serkez wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition.
Any recommendations?
You'll need to break
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Brett Serkez
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 9:43 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] read only root file system
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 15:38 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Brett Serkez wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition.
Any recommendations?
You'll need to break out your hard
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 19:22 +0200, Marc Rebischke wrote:
I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap
partition.
Any recommendations?
I built a diskless, CD-based firewall some time ago which works fine.
Of course you still need some writable directories, i.e.
/var/run,
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition.
Any recommendations?
Here is a slide deck from a presentation Rick Troth has done on read
only root file systems.
15 matches
Mail list logo