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ArchibaldPancakes

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Registered: 2018-06-19

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spitballing /etc file idea

what do y'all think of an /etc file that handles read/write, and transfer between two partitions with possible granularity on per app rule basis?
EDIT: not the partition itself but the relationship between partitions.

Last edited by ArchibaldPancakes (2025-07-20 04:26:21)

seth

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Re: spitballing /etc file idea

I think a file in /etc will not do such thing ever and that this is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem ?

Ftr, existing MAC solutions:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AppArmor
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SELinux
Or maybe you're just looking for https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firejail ?

But really: what are you trying to achieve here? Avoiding backups of the pseudo-FSs?
The userspace is by default agnostic to the topography of the underlying storage system, eg. find has to provide and implement "-xdev"

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ArchibaldPancakes

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Re: spitballing /etc file idea

meh I was thinking more for hypothetically mitigating ELF virii. the only other thing I can think of is pitting ELF virii against ELF virii and creating a living breathing Linux.

Last edited by ArchibaldPancakes (2025-07-21 04:37:23)

seth

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Re: spitballing /etc file idea

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Security

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