Subject: Re: Suggestion: inclusion of the truncate(1) utility into the tree
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Oleg Polyanski <luke@jetinf.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/27/2000 14:16:56
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:19:50AM +0400, Oleg Polyanski wrote:
> > Yeah, /usr for example.
>
> Hum, no regular users can't write to /usr (/usr is even mounted ro on this
> machine).
That was purely sarcastic comment about securing the system by
mounting user partitions with `noexec' flag. Probably because my
users are software developers. Sorry for not very understandable
joke.
>
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> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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