> Does /etc/security take filesystem mounted with:
> 
>  nosuid  Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier
>          bits to take effect.  Note: this option is worthless if a
>          public available suid or sgid wrapper like suidperl(1)
>          is installed on your system.
> 
> into account? If so, and the filesystems have nothing on them that
> needs suid you could mount 'm this way

The answer there is 'sort of'.  /etc/security checks all ufs partitions
that aren't marked nosuid.  if you're using anything other than UFS
(e.g. MFS,ext2,whatever), it's not getting checked at all.

Kevin Way

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