Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The local root exploit-of-the-week would have been unable to run if our
> users systems had /proc mounted with nosuid and/or noexec
> 
> It would be worthwhile considering making this a default. What are
> people's thoughts?
> 
> Additional testing of this change would be appreciated (just ensure that
> nothing breaks). To do it as a one off:
> 
> # mount -o remount,nosuid,noexec /proc
> 
> To make it more permanent, /etc/fstab has:
> 
>     proc    /proc    proc        defaults        0 0
> 
> Change to:
> 
>     proc    /proc    proc        nosuid,noexec        0 0
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel

Daniel,

Turns out that yesterday after we talked about this. I've been running
one of my boxes like that for ages. So far so good.

-- 
Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/

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