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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 1996 13:13:38 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>
To:        Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Immutable flags (was: Re: WARNING: botched ld.so commit! :-()
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.961003131028.2552E-100000@creator.gu.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.93.961003062342.10892A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>

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Hello,

On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Michael Hancock wrote:

> /kernel is marked immutable.  I'd like to be able to configure systems
> such that you can't change the flags unless you are in single user mode
> even if you're root.

	May be the following is dumb...

	What about an append-only / if securelevel > 0 ?

	This way one can create a subtree of appendonly dirs
	with immutable files in them, thus an Immutable Subtree
	in the filesystem.  I think this might be very useful.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Mike Hancock
> 

	Best,

	Andrew

	nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE




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