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Re: nosuid option for '/'?



-> > 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.

/ should NOT be mounted nosuid. but you can mount filesystems as /tmp /home
and /var as noexec (the only problem will be with /var/lib/dpkg where dpkg
unpacks preinstall and postinstall scripts)


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