Wait, why wouldn’t they? They could wipe the entire disk if the so choose
Comment on Silverblue or other immutable on remote VPS?
aordogvan@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoBecause even if an attacker could gain access even as root he cannot modify system files. This is why immutable OS distros are called immutable.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 2 weeks ago
They 100% can.
asap@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a read-only filesystem:
myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 2 weeks ago
That would be true of podman running anywhere, and is not unique to an immutable distribution. This is also clearly not what they are talking about.
You can change that real quick if you have root access.
asap@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You sound confident, but the fact that Fedora is using the term “immutable” makes me wonder if you actually have domain expertise here.
Immutable means immutable. It would be strange for them to call it that if it actually means “completely irrelevant from a security perspective”.
Unless you provide some evidence to the contrary I’m going to assume you aren’t correct.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Absitively, use case here IMO is set and forget autoupdate to stay current and SELinux (which actually reduces surface)