From owner-freebsd-security Fri Sep 8 15:39:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B45537B507 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 15:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA10878; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:39:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:39:18 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Brett Glass Cc: "Jonathan M. Slivko" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Home Directories -- in the point of security? Message-ID: <20000908173918.D9652@futuresouth.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000908161720.04680100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000908162832.04cff4c0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000908162832.04cff4c0@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:31:26PM -0600 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:31:26PM -0600, a little birdie told me that Brett Glass remarked > Even "friends" can sometimes overdo it. If you keep the pages in a > separate FreeBSD partition and impose quotas, you'll be safer in > that the system (which may be mission-critical for you) won't fall > apart if someone inadvertently takes up a lot of space. This is > especially important if you're letting your friends do CGI. Let friends alone :P Friends are easy. Friends are friendly. Friends know you know where they live. Friends know you're insane and if they putz up your box, they know to already have the flight out of the country scheduled. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message