On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.cawrote:
i'm experimenting with some basic removable media mounting exercises for an upcoming class, and i read that, while you can use gconf-editor to change some of the mount options in cases like that, there is no way to override the mount options of nodev, noexec and nosuid. for example, that claim is made here (admittedly for fedora, but it appears to be true for centos as well):
http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2007/03/gnome-automount-options/
is there somewhere that one could see and verify that those options always hold for mountable filesystems on removable media? thanks.
This question is different from the one in your subject header. These mount options are 'security features', make crackers jump through another hoop. They can be undone with a mount -o remount. I don't know the answer to your second question about where the defaults are set/displayed. TDB