Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:51:41
Message-Id: 20120320014915.3c84b7a9@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:33:39 +0000
2 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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4 > As for making /usr read-only; it is generally only writeable by root
5 > and anyone with the root password could remount rw anyway, so there's
6 > not much point there.
7
8 I was thinking here more of /usr mounted -t nfs
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10 root on nfs client != root on nfs server
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12 hence the need for rootsquash.
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14 But these days that setup is becoming a niche thing, the last one I saw
15 was in a university lab and I've never actually admined one myself.
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18 --
19 Alan McKinnnon
20 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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