begin  quoting DJA as of Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:29:10AM -0700:
[snip]
> I just tried mounting /home noexec. The immediate result is that X no 
> longer runs. So, I expect there's a lot more to it than that. If so, 
> what's the complete recipe?
 
Good question. 

I haven't tried this in years, myself, as it makes it a bit difficult
to compile-and-test things.

> As for /usr being ro, most Linux installations I've seen don't mount 
> /usr on its own partition. Are you recommending "chmod a-w /usr"?

No. Part of the reason why I'm less vociferous these days when Linmumble
is brought up is because many installations are going for the one-partition
install, and requiring /usr and /lib on bootup.

Things seem to be getting more-and-more integrated these days. I'm not
certain it's all that easy to take advantage of mount's options to make
a system 'more secure'.  It may be that it'll break a lot of software.

-Stewart "Oh, goody, something to investigate." Stremler

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