Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:36:51 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: Liste FreeBSD-security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question about securelevel Message-ID: <20040211173651.GC4282@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <20040211172958.8439.qmail@web60407.mail.yahoo.com> References: <B217C8ED-5CA9-11D8-ADF8-0030654D97EC@patpro.net> <20040211172958.8439.qmail@web60407.mail.yahoo.com>
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twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> probably said: > There was a blurb on this in the 3rd Ed. of Practical Unix & > Internet Sec. Basically they opined that hard drives with a > physical switch for read-only would be neat in some > circumstances since you can still write to a read-only fs if you > can get to the raw device. If anyone has a link to a drive that > has that I'd be interested to see. I've seen quite a few drives with a jumper setting for RO, documented as read only, or "write protect". Picking up a random disk on my desk (a Sun branded seagate ST39102LC, scsi LVD/SE disk) it has a jumper labelled "WRITE PROTECT". P. -- pir
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