--- 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.

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