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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:49:15 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:33:39 +0000
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> As for making /usr read-only; it is generally only writeable by root
> and anyone with the root password could remount rw anyway, so there's
> not much point there.
I was thinking here more of /usr mounted -t nfs
root on nfs client != root on nfs server
hence the need for rootsquash.
But these days that setup is becoming a niche thing, the last one I saw
was in a university lab and I've never actually admined one myself.
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Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com