Mounting

[Roman Neuhauser]

# rwatson at freebsd.org / 2003-06-23 11:45:37 -0400:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Socketd wrote:
> > Would it be possible to have this configuration and not having the
> > system fail (because of lacking rights or something): 
 
> > /var/mail		noexec
> 
> nosuid would be fine here also. 

# Jan.Grant at bristol.ac.uk / 2003-06-24 16:31:33 +0100:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Socketd wrote:
> > /tmp and /var/tmp 	noexec (I know /tmp has to be execuable to make
> > world)
> 
> nosymfollow. I've not found anything that this breaks (except a
> gazillion symlink race exploits).

    This questions will be probably extremely stupid:
    why aren't these defaults?

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