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Date:      Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:40:50 +0200
From:      Jimmy Lantz <jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount read only || chflags schg & sec level 2
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020917163853.03366920@mail.lusidor.com>
In-Reply-To: <44ptvcu3dt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020917103713.032c3950@mail.lusidor.nu> <5.1.0.14.0.20020917103713.032c3950@mail.lusidor.nu>

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At 09:55 2002-09-17 -0400, you wrote:
>Jimmy Lantz <jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com> writes:
>
> > I'm looking for away to write protect
> > some files whats the pros and cons
> > with having the file on a seperate partition and mount that read-only
> > or use the chflags schg and go to kernel security level 2?
>
>*Either* way you probably want to raise the security level.  A
>read-only mount doesn't help if it can be re-mounted writeable.  If
>the files *have* to be in the same directory with writeable files (as
>for many systems is true of /etc), schg can be a very good solution.
What files in /etc needs to be writeable? I was just thinking mounting it 
read-only.

>If the files aren't part of the standard system at all, then as
>someone else suggested, write-only media are an easy answer.


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