On 2013-04-24 8:48 AM, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> wrote:
One thing I'm trying to do is make the system as secure as
possible at the filesystem level, and I've read that making /tmp
and /var/tmp separate partitions so you can mount them
/nodev/noexec/nosuid is one way to make things a bit more
secure...

> noexec won't work for portage so put PORTAGE_TMPDIR somewhere else.

Ok, but - does it make sense to add the noexec option to /var/tmp? Is it possible that there are other apps that need exec capability in there?

On that note, I realized I can't make two /tmp's in lvm, so, I guess I
can make a vtmp, and just bind that to /var/tmp in fstab like:

/dev/vg/vtmp    /var/tmp     ext4     nodev,noexec,nosuid     0 0

Will that work?

Sure why not but you should set the pass column to 2 instead of 0.

What is the 'pass' column? Th 5th column is the 'dump' column, and the 6th is the 'fsck' column, afaik?

Thanks for the comments!

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