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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 14:19:28 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: /tmp fs type

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:49:45PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Maybe, but often fs type for /tmp is chosen not from security
> considerations, but performance or robustness.

Wouldn't tmpfs be the best choice under those considerations as well?

OK, I imagine someone might opt to have on-disk /tmp if it needs to be
larger than the machine's virtual memory size.

> How does the hardlink hardening protect against hardlinking into /home?

By not letting a user create hard links to files that they don't have
write permissions for.

> I mean Owl 3.0 system installer with the default kernel.  We don't plan
> to backport kernel hardening stuff to 3.0, do we?

We might.

> As to /home, Owl 4.0 would benefit too.

Why/how?

Alexander

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