Question about securelevel

[twig les]

--- Patrick Proniewski <patpro at 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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