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[ILUG] History of /etc ?

[ILUG] History of /etc ?

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Mon May 31 16:54:19 IST 2004


On Mon, 31 May 2004, kevin lyda wrote:

> also can't you limit what root can do with capabilities - and i'm
> guessing one of those capabilities would be to stop the ability to
> mount/remount/umount fs's.

I think it's covered by CAP_SYS_ADMIN though, and removing that from 
the permitted set would render box unbootable.
 
> kevin

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