Re: Looking for Advice on Debian Server Setup

2009-04-27 Thread Jorg Andersson
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:19:07AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > For security reasons, /tmp, /home, /var/tmp, and anywhere else a normal user > can create new files should be a separate mount point I agree. It's good practice to have at least /var and /tmp on seperate partitions. Much ea

Re: Looking for Advice on Debian Server Setup

2009-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Mark Phillips wrote: >I am setting up a new server for Plone/Zope sites on a Linode VPS. Reading >the "Securing Debian Manual" (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing- >debian-howto/), it recommends separate partitions for /tmp, /home, /opt, and >/var. I was talking with some of the Linod

Looking for Advice on Debian Server Setup

2009-04-27 Thread Mark Phillips
I am setting up a new server for Plone/Zope sites on a Linode VPS. Reading the "Securing Debian Manual" (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing- debian-howto/), it recommends separate partitions for /tmp, /home, /opt, and /var. I was talking with some of the Linode folks on IRC to find out how