linux security - Mar 1997 - Re: [linux-alert] More sendmail problems... Partition your disks!

[Mod: redirected to linux-security --alex]

On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Alexander O. Yuriev wrote:
>This is yet-another reason to _partition_ your disks. Of course hard links
>do not work accross filesystems. Even thought it is a pain in the neck to do
>when installing your operating system, think about separating critical
>system files from non-critical and non-system files from system files. I
>would say that the following layout is a good place to start:
[...]
>	/tmp		(nosuid,noexec,nodev)
>	/var		(nosuid,noexec,nodev)
Red Hat Linux, at least, won''t like this, as the Red Hat Package
Manager,
"rpm", builds scripts in and attempts to execute scripts out of /tmp. 
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