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Date:      Mon, 4 Jun 2001 20:08:28 -0400
From:      Kevin Way <kevin.way@overtone.org>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: speeding up /etc/security
Message-ID:  <20010604200828.A41130@bean.overtone.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010604211909.B1112@freebie.demon.nl>; from wkb@freebie.demon.nl on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:19:09PM %2B0200
References:  <p05100300b741879b7bc3@[192.168.168.205]> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106041205070.3177-100000@zeppo.feral.com> <20010604211909.B1112@freebie.demon.nl>

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> Does /etc/security take filesystem mounted with:
>=20
>  nosuid  Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier
>          bits to take effect.  Note: this option is worthless if a
>          public available suid or sgid wrapper like suidperl(1)
>          is installed on your system.
>=20
> into account? If so, and the filesystems have nothing on them that
> needs suid you could mount 'm this way

The answer there is 'sort of'.  /etc/security checks all ufs partitions
that aren't marked nosuid.  if you're using anything other than UFS
(e.g. MFS,ext2,whatever), it's not getting checked at all.

Kevin Way

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