--- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Yes, I'm aware of that case (even thought of it as I was typing my e-mail). It's not the only case in which this is useful though. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
