Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:42:38 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> To: roland Mathieu <roland.mathieu@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mount "/" read-only. Message-ID: <20030102121318.U22907-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> In-Reply-To: <20030102144734.GA7864@lycurgue.localnet>
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, roland Mathieu wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a FreeBSD 4.7 box with 4 differents partitions: "/", "/var", "/tmp" and > "/home", and the configuration is finish. Is it possible to mount "/" > read-only without troubles ? No. and yes :) You can, but you can't "without problems' Some of the problems you'll get: * You can't change passwords. * You can't update or replace binaries in case of a bug/security problem * You can't add/remove users/groups * You can't change the configuration if you need to. Fer > > Thanks for your answers, > roland. > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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