Re: Did you know ...

[Tighe <emry@accessus.net>]

Sounds good to me.  ;)  I think that this should be the default for all
installs of linux.  Sorry, I have had more jolt cola than i can count in
the past 7 hours.  I feel all twitchy and stuff . . .  weird. *snap*

d00d!!1!  c0m3 7rY @nD Cr@cK mY 31337 b0x!!1!  Pr0n Ru13s!!1!

Whoa!  Sorry about that, seems like the script kiddy in all of us just
came out of me!  Sheesh . . . *smack*

Tighe

>Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 08:41:32 -0600 (CST)
>From: Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>
>Reply-To: silug-discuss@silug.org
>To: silug-discuss@silug.org
>Subject: Re: Did you know ...
>
>Tighe said:
>> if you really want to be silly then do a nosuid on / i am kind of curious
>> about what it will break and what it won't.  :)
>
>If you are running with shadow passwords, it could get ugly.  Also,
>stuff like su and ping won't work.  Users won't be able to mount
>filesystems marked "user" in fstab.  If /usr is on /, none of the
>following will work:
>
>    at chage chfn chsh crontab newgrp passwd rcp rlogin rsh traceroute
>
>Also, users won't be able to send by calling sendmail directly.
>
>Steve
>

-- 
Tighe Schlottog		Sys Admin at large	  /emry\"@"/accessus.net\
                             ook ook
"Mr. Wizard, I think I'd rather be a coot than a hacker. Yeah, sure, every
now and then a giant pink-haired ape would come running after me and 
chase me into the lake, but really, could it be that much worse? I'd have
a tiny little brain and wouldn't be expected to worry about anything." 
						-jwz from www.jwz.org

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