- And if nosuid is
- a good thing for this system, can it be implemented for the
- /home directories only, without doing it for the whole / directory?
-
- Being that nosuid is a mount option, this would be quite easy to do if
- your /home was a separate partition, which I assume it is not.
/
And if nosuid is
a good thing for this system, can it be implemented for the
/home directories only, without doing it for the whole / directory?
Being that nosuid is a mount option, this would be quite easy to do if
your /home was a separate partition, which I assume it is not.
Somewhere in
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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
Do any of you see any potential problem with putting the 'nosuid'
option for the '/' directory in /etc/fstab?
Yes. Various essential apps that should be in / (/bin actually, which
should be on /) require suid
Do any of you see any potential problem with putting the
'nosuid' option for the '/' directory in /etc/fstab? I'm trying
to follow a Linux security How-To, but am less encouraged to
implement it after reading more about it (e.g., that it might
be less secure to do so with perl-suid
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