Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 21:47:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu (Allen Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Message-ID: <199809282147.OAA07076@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <9809280220.ZM6404@beatrice.rutgers.edu> from "Allen Smith" at Sep 28, 98 02:20:33 am
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> > 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... It works. For a bastion host, there's really no reason to have it writeable anyway... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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