Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 01:40:58 -0700 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Message-ID: <199809280840.BAA03201@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> "Re: Booting from NT ?" (Sep 28, 2:20am)
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On Sep 28, 2:20am, "Allen Smith" wrote: } Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? } 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... You won't be able to chown() and chmod() the tty devices when you log in. Before /dev/log was made a symlink to /var/run/log, syslogd wouldn't be able to create /dev/log. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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