From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 10:30:34 2004 Return-Path: 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 D65D616A505 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:30:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gigatrex.com (saraswati.gigatrex.com [64.5.48.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1925743D48 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from piechota@argolis.org) Received: (qmail 3583 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2004 18:29:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cithaeron.argolis.org) (138.88.199.18) by saraswati.gigatrex.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 Feb 2004 18:29:50 -0000 Received: from cithaeron.argolis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i1BIU1Ha031641; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:30:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from piechota@argolis.org) Received: from localhost (piechota@localhost)i1BIU126031638; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:30:01 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: cithaeron.argolis.org: piechota owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:30:00 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Piechota To: twig les In-Reply-To: <20040211172958.8439.qmail@web60407.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040211132921.X24782@cithaeron.argolis.org> References: <20040211172958.8439.qmail@web60407.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Liste FreeBSD-security 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] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:30:35 -0000 On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, twig les wrote: > 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. I know I've seen on some old Seagate SCSI drives I have at home. I'll check on it when I get there. -- Matt Piechota