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Date:      Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:20:16 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-security-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Subject:   Re: mount -u -r drops nosuid ?
Message-ID:  <20051121212016.GA66837@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <44sltqxgj5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <4381BFE2.80106@icyb.net.ua> <44sltqxgj5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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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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