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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 01:45:37 -0700
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"Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:13:12PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > It's arguable that "/" and "/usr" themselves should be
> > mounted read-only,
> 
> It's not very practical to have / read-only on a truely multi-user
> (the only time this linking stuff is much of an issue) 4-STABLE
> system. The two main reasons being /etc/master.passwd, et al, and the
> problems with a read-only /dev. It takes extensive customizations and
> kludges to get this to work.

It depends.  If this is a truly multiuser environment, then
you are probably getting your authentication from NIX or RADIUS.

It's really arguable that /etc should be a nullfs mount off of
somewhere else and/or variable information belongs in "var" or
some other place...

Sun has been able to do this since 1988 or so (at least).

-- Terry

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