Long time ago I was told that read-only floppies are not exactly safe. Early fd drives used read-only tab as a physical circuit-breaker, but nowadays everything is done through BIOS. So, theoretically, one can write onto a write-protected floppy. Is this correct?
--ET. On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:47:10AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > The idea is to have the database somewhere where Evil Hackers(tm) can't > get to it. How you do it depends on your level of paranoia: from simply > chattr +i /usr/lib/tripwire/databases/tw.db (lax security) to storing > the database on a write-protected floppy, or burning it onto a CDR > (paranoid setup). Presumably README refers to the paranoid option. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com