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Re: aditional partition parameter



On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 07:45:58PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am on the way to try/test debian etch.
> During instaltion in partition tool one could set special parameters for
> partition
> 
> My question:
> I use ext3 and have /var and /tmp on seperate partitions and would
> specifically know about noexec and nosuid flags on these partitions.
> 
> Is it a good advice to use these two flags on these partitions?
> Are there any programms that would need suid and exec rights in there?
> 
There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not
executable.  In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful
because it is trivial to work around.

Regards,

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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