Re: Security hole?

From: Efraim Yawitz (fyawitz_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 19 Jan 2006 - 19:07:14 IST


On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:

> Just one more note - it's recommended, on multiuser machines, to mount
> any user-writable filesystems with '-o nodev' (among other things).
> This usually means having /var,/tmp,/home maybe others as independent
> filesystems.

This is the thing I was looking for, and it prevents my CDROM trick also. Thanks.

Ephraim

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