Re: Is my system secure? What else should I do?

From: Lordy (SPAMusenet_at_do.not.reply.invalid)
Date: 09/03/05

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    Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:28:36 GMT

    Aragorn wrote:

    > If you have your /boot and/or /usr (and eventually /opt) split off
    > onto other partitions, have them automatically mounted read-only at
    > boot time.

    Just thinking about the value of this, and came across this ..

    http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2003/10/msg00035.html

    > Mount all partitions except for the root filesystem with
    > the nodev option. Mount /tmp and /var - if they reside on a
    > separate filesystem - with the noexec and nodev options.

    Lordy

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