From owner-freebsd-security Sun Sep 27 23:20:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08357 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beatrice.rutgers.edu (beatrice.rutgers.edu [165.230.209.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08331; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:20:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu) Received: (from easmith@localhost) by beatrice.rutgers.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id CAA06406; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:20:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Allen Smith" Message-Id: <9809280220.ZM6404@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:20:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert "Re: Booting from NT ?" (Sep 26, 6:43pm) References: <199809262242.PAA24523@usr04.primenet.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sep 26, 6:43pm, Terry Lambert (possibly) wrote: > The minimal modification is an MFS /var, mounted early, and a symlink > from /tmp -> /var/tmp, yes. > > Having a DEVFS (with SLICE) also helps... one less thing to deal > with not being R/O. Question... what does happen if one has a R/O root filesystem, including /dev, without DEVFS? I'm constructing a firewall computer with a (switchable - a nice facility of some Seagate drives) hard drive for root, a second writeable drive for /var and swap, and a /tmp MFS. What problems am I likely to run into with /dev? I'd really prefer not to have it as a symlink to /var/dev or some such... -Allen -- Allen Smith easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message