[X2go-Dev] x2go live-build based livesystems

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 11:08:05 CEST 2011


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Moritz Struebe
<Moritz.Struebe at informatik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> While I think this is a cool solution for private or trusted usage, I do
> see two issues for enterprise usage due to aufs:
>
> 1) Minor: It might happen, that some log-file runs crazy and fills the
> ram. In this case a reboot will solve the issue. This might be unwanted,
> though.

correct, local users can shoot themselves in the foot.

> 2) Installing any kind of software is much easier, as more directories
> are writeable then with the tmpfs-solution. Once someone does become
> root (already having an anonymous login) the world is open... :)

boot with option 'noroot'. cf.:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/en/man7/live-config.7.html


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard



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