On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:11, Joe Knall wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can/does mounting a partition with noexec, ro etc. provide additional
> security or are those limitations easy to circumvent?
>
> Example: webserver running chrooted
> all libs and executables (apache, lib, usr ...) on read only mounted
> partition /srv/www, data dirs (logs, htdocs ...) on
> partition /srv/www/data mounted with noexec (but rw of course), no cgi
> needed.
> Server is started with "chroot /srv/www /apache/bin/httpd -k start".
>
> Any cognition? Is this useful, nice, nonsense?
> Keeping the chroot updated and so on is not my concern here.

Besides this, you must also add nodev to prevent those kinds of circumventions

Paul

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