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Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody



On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:28:33AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:

> Another question relating to FS layout and organization: which
> partitions should be mounted NOSUID ? Someone on another (local) mailing
> list recommended that I mount /home NOSUID as a security precaution.

the better question is what partitions should NOT be mounted
nosuid. the answer is / /usr and possibly /usr/local.  everything else
should be mounted nosuid unless you have a specific need for a suid or
sgid binary on the filesystem. 


-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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