[CentOS] mount toption: nodev
nate
centos at linuxpowered.netTue Sep 15 20:29:33 UTC 2009
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Yungwei Chen wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to secure my CentOS file systems by introducing > "nodev" to devies defined in /etc/fstab. I learned that > "nodev" prevents users from mounting unauthorized devices. > However, I can still mount a cdrom to /tmp/cdrom with the > following defined in /etc/fstab. Am I missing something? yes, nodev prevents character and block devices from being interpreted (man mknod) on the file system, rather than preventing someone from mounting a file system on that file system. nate
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