From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 14:54:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905091454.22915.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A057B2F.9050804@gmail.com>
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Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 14:46:39 schrieb Dale:
> Wasn't there a security reason for this setup at one time? If you put
> /boot on a separate partition, then the only time it needed to be
> mounted was to update the kernel or edit grub/lilo. That was what I was
> reading when I installed Gentoo oh so many ages ago.
>
> Is this still true?
Of course, it needs to mounted rw for the few seconds needed to discover the
LVs, ask the user for the passphrase and create the dmcrypt mapping. Then it's
unmounted again and remounted ro during normal system boot. I don't consider
this a security problem. If it was, I could also stop using Linux altogether,
since there are also other filesystem on my system which need to be mounted rw
if the system should do something useful.
Bye...
Dirk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-09 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-06 19:51 [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc maxim wexler
2009-05-06 20:15 ` Daniel da Veiga
2009-05-06 20:41 ` Masood Ahmed
2009-05-07 16:37 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-05-07 16:48 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-05-07 16:52 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-05-07 19:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-07 20:46 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-05-07 20:53 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-07 21:00 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-07 21:16 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-07 21:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-05-07 21:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-08 17:04 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-05-08 17:17 ` Daniel da Veiga
2009-05-08 20:58 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-05-08 21:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-05-08 21:23 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-05-09 10:20 ` Stroller
2009-05-09 12:41 ` /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc) Dirk Heinrichs
2009-05-09 12:46 ` Dale
2009-05-09 12:54 ` Dirk Heinrichs [this message]
2009-05-09 13:15 ` Dale
2009-05-09 23:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-05-09 23:58 ` Dale
2009-05-10 6:48 ` Francesco Talamona
2009-05-10 7:50 ` Dale
2009-05-09 13:13 ` Stroller
2009-05-09 13:23 ` [gentoo-user] Re: /boot or not /boot Dirk Heinrichs
2009-05-09 15:23 ` /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc) Alan McKinnon
2009-05-10 12:24 ` Stroller
2009-05-11 17:09 ` [gentoo-user] Re: /boot or not /boot Dirk Heinrichs
2009-05-07 16:35 ` [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc Dirk Heinrichs
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