Questions tagged [read-only]
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How to enable password policy on readonly filesystem?
I'm using a read-only filesystem (squashfs). I've used the overlays file system to mount /etc directory. I can change the password using passwd command.
I've included libpam & libpwquality packages to enable the strong password policy. I see the…

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Cannot edit journald.conf
I'm working with a embedded linux machine that was made with Buildroot. The default user is root and I would like to edit /etc/systemd/journald.conf to set the SystemMaxUse to prevent the log files from taking all the limited space.
When I try to…

Life Impactor
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In the bind mount "hostPath:containerPath:ro" what dose the ro part do?
How do I know I need to add the ro or not?
I know the ro stands for read only but why would you need a read only bind mount?
How would it effect my docker-composer-yml
Example: Containerizing a python app
// docker-composer.yml
...
volumes:
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Andrew
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Block users from accessing anything outside home folder and run any executables on Windows
I am facing a quite complex problem and I do not know how to approach it in the best way. In short I need to block access (browse, display, run etc.) to anything outside of the profile/home directory on Windows + block installation and execution of…

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VM in Read-Only - no commands executed
A Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server VM has entered Read-Only Mode, to the point that basic commands such as ls are not executed anymore, and return the error message -bash: /usr/bin/ls: Input/output error, even for root.
A Read-only state is usually fixed by…
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nslookup domain does not return RODC
i have a subnet which contains an RODC, however a prejoined domain-server cant authenticate inside the subnet. Running a "nslookup domain.com" does return a list of every DC except the RODC. I found an article on technet which stated the PTR record…

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VM filesystem in read-only mode
I have a VirtualBox Ubuntu VM with a virtual disk that is mounting as a read-only filesystem. I'm not sure why that is, and my attempts to remount as read/write haven't worked.
One of the last things I did before it went read-only was to extend the…

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How to create a readonly root linux: Can be mounted as writeable for persistent changes?
I'd like a read only file system that runs almost entirely in RAM but the compact flash or hardrive can be mounted and made writeable to make persistent changes.
How do I do this on Linux? I've looked at several tutorials but none really explain how…

Mr Anderson
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XEN Server NFS SR read only
We have two Boxes running XEN XCP. One SR is located on an FreeNAS 9 NFS share.
For some reason the NFS share turned read only which is pretty bad for one VM whose VDIs are located on the NFS SR.
I have found many hints to change the NFS mount…

Rob
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MySQL : How to lock all write in all databases?
I need to block all writes (insert , update, delete) on all databases.
How can I do that ?
Put all database in Read Only for a period time.

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