mount options noexec,nosuid,nodev

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

I always seem to get bitten by this!

I had a power-outage yesterday, and at restart I disabled one of my 
filesystems in /etc/fstab (since a fsck of this fs takes a rather long 
time).  After the reboot, I manually ran fsck and then mounted the 
filesystem with

	mount /myfs

Yes, I forgot to specify "-o exec,suid,dev" so I couldn't execute any 
scripts (or other executables).

But looking through the manual pages, there doesn't seem to be any 
indication on when "-o noexec,nosuid,nodev" becomes the default!  (It 
seems not to be the default when mount is invoked during /etc/rc.d 
startup processing, but only after the system is up.)

Where is this documented?  And perhaps the mount(8) man page might 
benefit if these options included an appropriate cross-ref?



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