Re: nosuid option for '/'?

1999-10-17 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- 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. /

Re: nosuid option for '/'?

1999-10-13 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
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

Re: nosuid option for '/'?

1999-10-13 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- 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

nosuid option for '/'?

1999-10-12 Thread Art Lemasters
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