On May 22, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Reviewing mount options for various real and virtual filesystems, I'm
> wondering if it might be preferable to set the nosuid and possibly
> noexec options for udev (obviously it cannot be made nodev ;-).
This looks like security by obscurity.

> There's a possible concern with mmap() and mprotect() for noexec mounts,
> but restricting the ability to create suid files may be a positive
> security measure.
Can you provide a more compelling argument? Have you tried doing this on
a large number of systems to check if something would break?

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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