From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Feb 11 09:30:02 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AED316A4CE
	for <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:30:02 -0800 (PST)
Received: from web60407.mail.yahoo.com (web60407.mail.yahoo.com
	[216.109.118.190])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C11BA43D2F
	for <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:30:01 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from twigles@yahoo.com)
Message-ID: <20040211172958.8439.qmail@web60407.mail.yahoo.com>
Received: from [68.5.51.136] by web60407.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP;
	Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:29:58 PST
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>
In-Reply-To: <B217C8ED-5CA9-11D8-ADF8-0030654D97EC@patpro.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Subject: Re: Question about securelevel
X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting]
	<freebsd-security.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security>,
	<mailto:freebsd-security-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-security-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security>,
	<mailto:freebsd-security-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:30:02 -0000


--- 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.


=====
-----------------------------------------------------------
With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with
democracy and with science.
     --Carl Sagan  
-----------------------------------------------------------

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online.
http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html