Re: any risk in using /home/root
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Kevin Conover wrote:
>
> there's one other small cosideration that I can think of. While I don't
> do this, I know some people keep scripts/binaries for sysadmin use in
> /root. If any of these are suid then you'll have a problem if you mount
> /home as nosuid (something that I do). I sometimes have an suid program
> in /root if I'm trying out a new version of a system utility (mount, for
> example). This type of thing can be difficult to find. (As you can tell,
> I got burned by this once :-).
>
That and the usual problems associated with a failed mount of /home. Also,
if /home is an NFS mount, you risk a security problem if someone messes
with your home dir ... you now risk screwing up all systems you log into.
George Bonser
Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today?
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