>
> Hello,
> My thanks to all who have been helping me so far, your advice has helped
> me solve many problems. I've got my system configured, I've got
> everything working just how I'd like it. I've got a few user's on my
> system, including my own personal account, not root. I'd like to start
> using it. What I'd like is readonly access to some parts of my hd, I need
> to know how to get and/add to my path. I'd also like to know the best way
> of doing this, basically, me as me, not root, I want to be able to read
> almost everything, but not mess anything up, will I have to make a new
> group for that or change my group?
> My second question involves dial-in. I've got a few who want to access
> stuff off my system. I know about the dial-in lines in /etc/inittab,
> however, when I uncomment one, and I get a call, yah the modem answers,
> but when th e user logs out the modem will not hang up.
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
I may be wrong here, but I believe you can only mount partitions as a whole as
read-only. A better method would be to change the attributes for whatever
you want to be protected. For instance, to avoid modification of ld.so.conf,
type "chmod a-w ld.so.conf"
