Re: /home as noexec and X
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
 : 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?
Perhaps you're an ISP and think allowing any user to upload executables
to your server might be a bad idea?  (Think winnuke, nestea, etc.)
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