Karen Hill wrote:
> Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
>> On 1 Sep 2006 12:28:12 -0700
>> "Karen Hill" <karen_hill22_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Immutable files are files where not even root
>>> can change/delete/move a file set as immutable.
>> But root can unset the immutable flag. Thus it only serves as
>> protection against accidental deletions or modifications. This is
>> slightly useful. Roles are better for that purpose.
>
> Not when they are at a networked run level according to the OpenBSD man
> page on the subject. They would have to reboot, or bring it down to
> single user mode to do that.
Do you mean they'd have to reboot to do it at all, or do you mean that
they'd have to reboot to do it in a supported manner? I strongly
suspect it's the latter. After all, at some level, it's all bits and
bytes (both on disk and in RAM), so if you can execute privileged
instructions on the processor, you can do whatever you want, period.
Received on Fri Sep 01 2006 - 20:19:51 CDT
