On 08/03/2016 06:49 AM, Rowland Penny (by way of Rowland Penny <rpenny241...@gmail.com>) wrote:
You couldn't make this up, why O why make /etc read only ?????
For server hardening, sometimes partitions are mounted r/o or with special flags (eg: noexec, nosuid) in order to make it more difficult for an attacker to manipulate filesystem objects.
That said, the Fedora incident you mention was likely another "flat tire" situation rather than anything done in the interest of security.
As far as I know, Fedora has always been an incubator of the bizzare and unnatural. Trying to pin down any issues on that platform rarely nets any advantage for anything more than sadistic amusement.
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