On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:45:57AM -0700, David Walser wrote:
> Doing this would be useful to more than just people
> networking mounting /usr.  It would also be useful for
> standalone machines, mainly for security,
> manageability, and backup reasons.  You could mount
> /usr locally, read-only, which can make things a
> little more secure, you can know that things aren't
> being modified 100 different in /usr that you don't
> know about, and you don't have to back up /usr.

So much for security:
mount -o remout,rw /usr

If they get root access to you box they probably know how to remount a
partition rw.

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