[svlug] Security question: read-only drive

[Rick Moen]

begin Dagmar d'Surreal quotation:

> I recompiled a *whole* lotta stuff to go looking in /usr/etc for it's
> configuration files.

That is (slightly) interesting, but I'm not sure what, if anything, is
the relevance to Drew's concerns.

[FHS:]

> Most people should be aware that this document is geared towards *very*
> generic UNIX systems, and Linux is not one of those.

Beg pardon?  I think you need to re-read it.  For starters, FHS was
created as an abstraction of filesystem logic _from_ Linux
distributions.

> Putting XFree86 into /usr/X11 as it suggests....

FHS does not suggest "putting XFree86 into /usr/X11".  Again, you really
need to re-read.

> ...and for some reason just seeing the three letters o-p-t makes me
> think of HP-UX and then I want to wash my brain out afterwards.  

Yes.  I don't like /opt either, and either eliminate it entirely, or
symlink it to somewhere in /usr/local.  But you're missing the point:
FHS describes the basic logic of which filesystems are shareable vs.
non-shareable, and static vs. dynamic.  The latter is an important
consideration if you're trying to decide which directory trees can be
usably mounted from read-only-jumpered media.

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