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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:41:29 -0300 (GMT)
From:      Fernando Schapachnik <fpscha@ns1.sminter.com.ar>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        dscheidt@enteract.com, unicorn@blackhats.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ACLs
Message-ID:  <199903151241.JAA01091@ns1.sminter.com.ar>
In-Reply-To: <199903140826.AAA89058@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Mar 14, 99 00:26:45 am"

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En un mensaje anterior, Matthew Dillon escribió:
[...]
>     If you have your machine partitioned correctly, you do not generally
>     have to worry about hardlinks to system binaries ( suid or otherwise )
>     as users do not have access to partitions containing them.

This leads me to a question:
Why not set the default (auto) file system layout to something like:

/
/usr
/var
/home
/tmp

This not only restrict linking problems, but also allows to specify 
things like noexec and nosuid on /home and /tmp at least.

Regards.

Fernando P. Schapachnik
Administracion de la red
VIA Net Works Argentina SA


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