Do we care about /sbin /bin linked to /usr/lib ?

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Fri Sep 26 16:00:18 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970 at gmail.com> said:
>> Long term, I'll admit that getting rid of separate /usr may be a good idea,
>> Solaris appears to have done away with it a while ago (which surprised me,
>> since they used to make explicit provision for having shared /usr in their
>> package management system).
>
> I use a separate (but not shared) /usr on my servers, and I mount it
> read-only.

I suggest using SELinux (if you're not already) instead; it provides
far stronger security than messing with the filesystem layout ever
can.




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