Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 10:25, Kiko Piris wrote: > On 23/02/2004 at 07:52, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > Nope. This is Linux, which kicks ass. On your > > single-partition Linux 2.6 system, do this: > > > > mount --bind /home /home > > mount --bind -o remount,nosuid /home /home > > Oh!, nice thing. I

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Kiko Piris
On 23/02/2004 at 07:52, Albert Cahalan wrote: > If stability were an issue, we'd need to fix that > instead of using a gross work-around. Yes, you're right. > Nope. This is Linux, which kicks ass. On your > single-partition Linux 2.6 system, do this: > > mount --bind /home /home > mount --bind

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 06:46, Kiko Piris wrote: > On 23/02/2004 at 00:05, s. keeling wrote: > > This is ridiculous advice and I wish people like you would stop > > offering it. Multiple partitions make the system far more robust and > > usable in many ways, from backing it up through system stabili

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Colin Leroy
On 23 Feb 2004 at 13h02, Kiko Piris wrote: Hi, > I guess you mean noexec. I was talking about nosuid. They're not the > same... Uh, yes, sorry for the noise :( -- Colin have to wakeup at least...

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:02:42PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > On 23 Feb 2004 at 12h02, Kiko Piris wrote: > > One other advantage in separating partitions is security: you can mount > > /boot ro,noexec,nodev,nosuid, /home nosuid,nodev, /tmp nosuid,nodev, > > etc. (http://www.seifried.org/lasg/insta

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Colin Leroy
On 23 Feb 2004 at 13h02, Colin Leroy wrote: Hi, > Anyway, /lib/ld.so.1 has to be executable PS: please people don't chmod -x /lib/ld.so.1, you'd only get angry after that. -- Colin

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Kiko Piris
On 23/02/2004 at 13:02, Colin Leroy wrote: > On 23 Feb 2004 at 12h02, Kiko Piris wrote: > > Hi, > > > One other advantage in separating partitions is security: you can mount > > /boot ro,noexec,nodev,nosuid, /home nosuid,nodev, /tmp nosuid,nodev, > > etc. (http://www.seifried.org/lasg/installat

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Colin Leroy
On 23 Feb 2004 at 12h02, Kiko Piris wrote: Hi, > One other advantage in separating partitions is security: you can mount > /boot ro,noexec,nodev,nosuid, /home nosuid,nodev, /tmp nosuid,nodev, > etc. (http://www.seifried.org/lasg/installation/). /home nosuid is painful on real shared computers w