-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 04:34:12AM -0400, Tarjei Huse wrote: > Hi, > The Securing Debian manual suggest one should set the /usr partition to > ro and use remount when you install new programs. > I was just wondering how much security one gains with this. Wouldn't > most hackers go after the programs in the /bin and /sbin directories > anyway?
If I r00t your system I'll have access to remount it rw anyhow. Any "hacker" who doesn't know how to remount a file system is really lame. You may slow someone down for 3 seconds until they type: cat /proc/mounts (Oh, it's ro!) and then types mount -o remount/rw /usr Just my $.02... - -- Phillip Hofmeister PGP/GPG Key: http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ wget -O - http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/key.txt | gpg --import - -- Excuse #34: Heavy gravity fluctuation move computer to floor rapidly -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/hU9LS3Jybf3L5MQRApOgAJ46cRmVhLyAla8TkotPFDfIpGvYYwCdFSLc X9qMr61K+a0SKMQiegqcMDg= =uLGH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
