On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:12:54PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Using things like pam_console or pam_group should not become our default policy, unless we at least ensure /home, /var and /tmp are mounted nosuid – and it would be better with the ability to revoke the permissions on the open devices as well.
Mounting /var nosuid would break things: lakeview ok % ls -ld /var/mail drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 2007-05-02 00:22 /var/mail nosuid prohibits not only suid bits, but sgid bits as well. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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