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Re: [suse-security] best way to secure /dev/shm?



Olivier Mueller wrote:
> To improve the security a little bit, I'd like to have this
> pseudo filesystem 'noexec,nosuid' (like /tmp), but under
> suse linux it's not in the /etc/fstab
> (cf. http://www.eth0.us/?q=tmp for some other ideas).
> 
> Is the only way to achieve that editing directely
> /etc/init.d/boot.shm ? It seem to be the case: in
> /etc/sysconfig/kernel you can only set the size, but
> not the other options...  (suse 9.2 in this case) 

I've openend a bug report for that. Mount flags will be configurable
in the next SUSE Linux release. Thanks for the report!

cu
Ludwig

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