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curious to know how you can make a linux distro immutable from any modification.
by curiously 12y ago
curious to know how you can make a linux distro immutable from any modification.
- stonogo 12y agoThat's probably why it's the future and not the present.
- CiaranMcNulty 12y agoBy regularly redeploying or re-imaging. Exploits can only live for a certain timescale + you can lock down nearly every entry point (no need for SSH access for instance).
- anon4 12y agoHow do you redeploy without some sort of remote access?
- acveilleux 12y agoYou use cloud VM API and images that use something like chef or salt to configure themselves. Basically, you destroy a VM and spin up a new one with one of your images, it will then use chef or salt to pull in its config. SSH isn't needed then.
- pjc50 12y agoMount the root filesystem read-only? Boot from CD?
- kalleboo 12y agoToggle the Read-Only window on the floppy disk
- ay 12y agoBuild a custom LiveISO. There are plenty of tutorials, but it is boring to follow them manually, especially if you need to make a couple of tweaks to ISO or update it. So I put together a couple of scripts to automate the process: https://github.com/ayourtch/iso-livecd https://github.com/ayourtch/iso-livecd
- Sir_Cmpwn 12y agoGet root, create a ramdisk, copy /usr/bin/* into it, and remount it under /usr/bin/*, and now you can do as you please.