Hi! On Sat Jul 05, 2003 at 02:37:31PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Generally, applications and static data go in /usr. You could mount > /usr read-only save when installing apps, and none of the core Debian > applications would break. > > Similarly, system-wide configuration data goes in /etc. You could > mount /etc read-only, save when reconfiguring the system. bind, dhcpd, > exim, etc would still work, as they drop data in /var. They only > reference /etc for their initial configuration data.
There were long threads discussing such problems on debian-devel. Search for "read-only root" and you can read hours ;-) > Everything would seem to work with the base apps if /etc were > read-only, except that you couldn't change users' passwords. > > Given that passwords are dynamic data, why are they still squirreled > away in /etc? Wouldn't it be more intuitive to have /etc/shadow be > /var/shadow? Look at [1]. There's lot of work to do if you want to make the root fs read-only. So long Thomas 1. http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root.html -- .''`. Obviously we do not want to leave zombies around. - W. R. Stevens : :' : Thomas Krennwallner <djmaecki at ull dot at> `. `'` 1024D/67A1DA7B 9484 D99D 2E1E 4E02 5446 DAD9 FF58 4E59 67A1 DA7B `- http://bigfish.ull.at/~djmaecki/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
