On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 11:46:18AM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> > Two things that come to mind:
> > 
> >  + read-only root filesystem, so users can't change their crontabs.
> 
> Users already can't chsh or chfn or passwd with a read-only root, which
> seems somewhat worse to me. :)

you assume local passwords. with a shared readonly root, you'll use NIS or
something similar for remote passwords, most probably...
	-is