From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 16:11:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [207.167.3.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DF915313 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 16:11:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost.orthanc.ab.ca [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.10.0.Beta6/8.10.0.Beta6) with ESMTP id dBF0BJQ22600 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:11:19 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199912150011.dBF0BJQ22600@orthanc.ab.ca> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:50:10 +0100." Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:11:18 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "BSDman" == BSDman writes: BSDman> one idea about /usr is to allow the admin to mount it BSDman> read-only. I didn't tried it but this would give some BSDman> level of security against modifications of the files there BSDman> in. This is particulary useful in a lab environment where you have xx workstations with local root, var, and swap NFS mounting an RO /usr. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message