Re: mount -u -r drops nosuid ?

From: Matthew D. Fuller (fullermd_at_over-yonder.net)
Date: 11/21/05

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To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-security-local@be-well.ilk.org>

    On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:43:42AM -0500 I heard the voice of
    Lowell Gilbert, and lo! it spake thus:
    >
    > I think it is safer (less room to shoot yourself in the foot) to
    > have the flags be exactly the ones you specified in the remount (no
    > more, no less) than to have to know exactly what the state was
    > beforehand. But clearly it's possible to surprise the operator
    > either way.

    This is where -o current comes in. 

    -- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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