Re: Why doesn't noexec work?

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Date: 11/12/02 

Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:41:06 +0100

Jem Berkes <jb2002-delete-this-AND-users@users.pc9.org> writes:

> Besides executing binaries, I can also set suid as demonstrated below:

I would expect you to be able to set bit but I wouldn't expect them to
have any effect.

> But luckily, user quotas are working fine. Does this have anything to do
> with the one-higher mount point not having these flags?
>
> /dev/hda8 on /var type ext2 (rw)

Nope. On all the system I have used for testing / is mountet with no
special flags and my test filesystem has been mounted at /mnt. Not
that I would expect it to have any influence. 

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