[CentOS] Swap Considerations

Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob at darkover.org
Tue Feb 27 08:02:15 UTC 2007


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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:07:35AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> >This depends entirely on the tasks required of the box.
> >Putting /tmp on a separate partition can allow you to mount it noexec,
> >which can help with security, and filling up /tmp won't fill the rest
> >of the disk.
> 
> OTOH anything bad you can do with /tmp you can do better with /var/tmp, 
> and making that noexec is not a realistic proposition.

Why not ? I have /tmp and /var/tmp as noexec on all my servers,
along with ACLs to better protect it.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa
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