On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>wrote: > > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100915/0d26d3f5/attachment-0005.html>