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Subject: Re: [suse-security] /-Root-FS: Readonly?
From: Kurt Seifried (listuserseifried.org)
Date: Tue Jun 27 2000 - 16:20:30 CDT

> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm setting up a firewall with 6.4. At the moment, I'm trying to secure
> > the machine.
> >
> > I wanted to set the /-FS to readonly, only /home,/var,/tmp are writable.
> > All works fine, but after closing a tty, mingetty is respawning too fast
> > and I'm unable to use this tty any more.
> >
> > I tracked the problem down to an write-attempt to the cua-device, but
> > the system reports that / is mounted readonly.
> >
> > Is there a possibility to supress this write-access in the
> > respawning-process?

Also try LIDS, you can be much more selective and set things that need to be
writeable writeable.

www.lids.org

Kurt Seifried
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