svn commit: r41813 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics

[Eitan Adler]

On 3 June 2013 13:55, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 15:44:45 +0000 (UTC)
> Eitan Adler <eadler at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> Author: eadler
>> Date: Sat Jun  1 15:44:45 2013
>> New Revision: 41813
>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41813
>>
>> Log:
>>   The man page for mount(1) and the handbook disagree on the security value of 'noexec'.  The man page is correct.
>>
>> Modified:
>>   head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
>>
>> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml    Sat Jun  1 15:37:57 2013        (r41812)
>> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml    Sat Jun  1 15:44:45 2013        (r41813)
>> @@ -1790,15 +1790,6 @@ root     5211  0.0  0.2  3620  1724   2
>>
>>        <variablelist>
>>       <varlistentry>
>> -       <term>noexec</term>
>> -
>> -       <listitem>
>> -         <para>Do not allow execution of binaries on this file
>> -           system.  This is also a useful security option.</para>
>> -       </listitem>
>> -     </varlistentry>
>> -
>> -     <varlistentry>
>>         <term>nosuid</term>
>>
>>         <listitem>
>
> Why not fix rather than remove?

This is not really a 'common' mount option to use.

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Eitan Adler
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Bugmeister, Ports Security teams