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. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.
