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Author: Jason
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Subject: Restricting user's ability to execute binaries in home directory.
More than one filesystem?

> > I am in the process of opening up my personal server to other people to
> > store files and receive e-mail. The problem is that I do not want all
> > of them to be able to execute binaries from their home directories. (I
> > consider this a security risk.) Some of the people are trusted users
> > and I do want them to ab able to execute binaries.
> >
> > So far the only way I have seen to restrict arbitrary execution is with
> > the noexec option in the /etc/fstab. Unfortunately this also prevents
> > my trusted users from executing their programs. Any suggestions?


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