Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 11:29:23 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Is "immutable" supposed to be a good idea? Message-ID: <199602181029.LAA06523@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602180608.RAA29273@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 18, 96 05:08:54 pm
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As Bruce Evans wrote:
> The immututable flags are always honoured. In secure mode, you can't
> turn then off. In highly secure mode, you can write to the disk
> directly to turn them off.
You should not.
INIT(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual INIT(8)
NAME
init - process control initialization
2 Highly secure mode - same as secure mode, plus disks are always
read-only whether mounted or not. This level precludes tampering
with filesystems by unmounting them, but also inhibits running
newfs(8) while the system is multi-user.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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