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Re: /home as noexec and X



-> Previously Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
-> > I mounted my /home partition as noexec (to have more security on my machine)
-> > and I found i can't exec scripts like ~/.xsession;
-> 
-> That sounds like a seriously broken setup anyway. Why not use nosuid as
-> a mount option and make sure . is not in your path?

I just don't want any user to download any executable and use it.
maybe i'm paranoid about security but this sounds like good idea to me;
maybe linux kernel could be patched to allow executing of scripts (starting
with #!) on partition mounted as "noexec"


-- 
 Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia
 BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz


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