Comment on Silverblue or other immutable on remote VPS?

just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That phrase has practically lost all meaning.

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  • aordogvan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because even if an attacker could gain access even as root he cannot modify system files. This is why immutable OS distros are called immutable.

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    • myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because even if an attacker could gain access even as root he cannot modify system files.

      They 100% can.

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      • asap@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They 100% can.

        It’s a read-only filesystem:

        /dev/nvme0n1p4 on /sysroot type xfs (ro)
        /dev/nvme0n1p4 on /usr type xfs (ro)
        /dev/nvme0n1p3 on /boot type ext4 (ro)
        

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      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Absitively, use case here IMO is set and forget autoupdate to stay current and SELinux (which actually reduces surface)

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, why wouldn’t they? They could wipe the entire disk if the so choose

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