Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:29:58 -0800 (PST) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: Patrick Proniewski <patpro@patpro.net>, Liste FreeBSD-security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question about securelevel Message-ID: <20040211172958.8439.qmail@web60407.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <B217C8ED-5CA9-11D8-ADF8-0030654D97EC@patpro.net>
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--- Patrick Proniewski <patpro@patpro.net> wrote:
> On 11 févr. 2004, at 16:35, Jim Zajkowski wrote:
>
> > [1] I suppose those flash-IDE thingamabobs that have a
> switch to
> > toggle to read-only work just as well here too.
>
> would be nice to have such features on hard drives, CD-ROM
> size is
> quite small, and I'm not sure one can boot a live OS from a
> DVD
> (requiring a DVD burner to create the booting medium).
>
> patpro
There was a blurb on this in the 3rd Ed. of Practical Unix &
Internet Sec. Basically they opined that hard drives with a
physical switch for read-only would be neat in some
circumstances since you can still write to a read-only fs if you
can get to the raw device. If anyone has a link to a drive that
has that I'd be interested to see.
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