You remount it, or you umount it and change the read/write tab on the
actual floppy?
If you just remount as read/write, remember that if a cracker gets root
access they can do it just as easily as you could to forge entries on
the disc.
Ryan
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:04:30AM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> > Of course. I'd have to burn a CDROM or something. But it's something
> > I've been meaning to find out about, just in case...
>
> I have a CD-R drive, but I don't use it for AIDE. Instead, I keep my
> (otherwise-unused) floppy drive with an AIDE floppy in it always mounted
> as read-only. When I need to update the AIDE database, I re-mount the
> floppy as read-write, make the update, then remount it as read-only.
> This leaves the CD-R free for other tasks (like backups) but keeps the
> AIDE database relatively safe.
>
> KEN
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