From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 00:06:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510000608.319c2326@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705091549.45764.bulliver@badcomputer.org>
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On Wed, 09 May 2007 15:49:45 -0600, darren kirby wrote:
> I have heard you can use a separate /usr to enhance security by
> mounting it readonly under normal circumstances. This way, bad guys
> can't mess with your binaries in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin,
Instead of only being able to get at the really important stuff in /bin
and /sbin?
> I do have a separate /usr, but do not mount it readonly, as I --sync
> enough to make remounting it daily rather annoying.
1) Use a script to remount /usr, sysnc, remount /usr
2) Much better, use a separate filesystem for /usr/portage (or put it
on /var)
3) Better still,
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage#Make_A_Sparse_File_to_create_portage_in
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-09 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 23:56 [gentoo-user] Clock is way off Grant
2007-05-09 5:28 ` AJ Spagnoletti
2007-05-09 6:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Anno v. Heimburg
2007-05-09 14:27 ` Grant
2007-05-09 14:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 15:45 ` Grant
2007-05-09 16:12 ` Redouane Boumghar
2007-05-09 17:05 ` Dale
2007-05-09 17:17 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-05-09 17:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 17:53 ` [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off] Benno Schulenberg
2007-05-09 18:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 18:29 ` Randy Barlow
2007-05-09 18:34 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-05-09 18:54 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-09 20:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 21:21 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-09 21:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 6:56 ` Naga
2007-05-10 8:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 21:22 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-09 21:52 ` Mick
2007-05-09 21:49 ` darren kirby
2007-05-09 23:01 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-09 23:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 2:16 ` Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
2007-05-10 7:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-09 23:06 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-05-10 0:31 ` darren kirby
2007-05-10 0:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 2:01 ` darren kirby
2007-05-10 7:31 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-10 8:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 8:41 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr Alexander Skwar
2007-05-10 9:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 10:11 ` Benno Schulenberg
2007-05-10 10:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 21:36 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-11 5:51 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2007-05-09 18:54 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off Dale
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