Re: [Security-Discuss] Mount issues in LE2005-Club - Security Issue

Stew Benedict <sbenedict-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:39:57 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.security.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Albert Whale wrote:

> Stew,
> 
> It would appear that you can successfully remount /tmp with 
> nosuid,noexec,nodev options very easily (I can also duplicate this).  
> But my issue is with what occurs during a full Cold Boot (or init 6).
> 

My test was from a cold boot. I edited fstab in a chroot and rebooted into 
the native 10.2 install. I created/formatted hda21 explicitly for the 
test.

The only manual remount was when I removed the nodev option to verify I 
was testing the dev node creation/use properly.

> This is the exception where I cannot get mount to use the options in 
> /etc/fstab.  Can you duplicate this?  Or did you simply use the remount 
> option for /tmp?

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Stew Benedict
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