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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