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Subject: [ale] Help with server setup
From: ecashin at noserose.net (Ed Cashin)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:30:29 -0400
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> you remove the chattr command from /sbin once you are done marking
> your system all read-only just before the reboot.

Hmm.  I might be missing the point.  It seems like root could just
mount a tmpfs and build a new chattr in there---Removing chattr
seems more like an inconvenience to a would-be attacker than a
real preventative measure.

-- 
  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>
  http://noserose.net/e/

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