Huh? I can't see how that follows, and I don't understand the point
that you're trying to make.
What I'm saying is that there are standard ways under Unix to stop
programs from writing to your files; you don't need a read-only
loopback mount to get this behaviour.
>And if you have the root password to a machine,
Who said anything about having the root password?
>why would you bother to log in as some other user ?
To use the kernel's existing protection mechanisms that protect
non-zero uids from each other.
Peter
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