From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 6 2:43:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39C937B408 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ceri by cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15evhX-0000WI-00; Thu, 06 Sep 2001 10:43:59 +0100 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:43:59 +0100 From: Ceri To: Andrew J Caines Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Message-ID: <20010906104359.E30676@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20010904221809.B57312B@usul.nersc.gov> <20010905183015.A824@hades.hell.gr> <20010906094931.B30676@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20010906051207.O55388@hal9000.servehttp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010906051207.O55388@hal9000.servehttp.com>; from A.J.Caines@halplant.com on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:12:07AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:12:07AM -0400, Andrew J Caines said: > Ceri, > > > > From: Eli Dart > > > Mount /tmp then as MFS with a limited size. Works nicely, for me. > > > > **boggle** > > Not at all boggling. It's as simple as possible. > > /dev/ad0s1b /tmp mfs rw,async,noatime,-s=32768 0 0 > > > Swap mounted on an MFS /tmp ?? > > > > **shudder** > > > What makes you uncomfortable? In the lines you quoted ? Nothing. Having my swap partition mounted on a memory file system makes me uncomfortable, which is why I quoted those parts of the previous posts. Ceri -- We've tried this God stuff long enough. It's time for a change. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message