On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:40 AM, imduffy <imduffy15 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just out of interest and on the topic of hardening. What do you recommend
> for partition mount points?
> At the moment I'm using the following:
> / errors=remount-ro
> /boot nodev,nosuid,nouser,auto
I wouldn't mount /boot, leave it umounted.
> /home relatime,nodev,nosuid,rw,nouser,auto
I would add noexec to /home unless they are people compiling code in
their homes that they need to execute.
> /usr relatime,nodev,rw,nouser,auto
I'd put a ro here since most of the time (excluding updates), you
shouldn't really need to have /usr writable.
Cheers,
Steph
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