Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm a bit confused about the
description of nosuid in the mount manpage on this RedHat system
I'm setting up:         you have suidperl(1) installed.)  So I
looked up suidperl(1) and discovered The suidperl Story, and was
properly entertained for five minutes. I also learned that
setting nosuid may not improve security as much as one might
like, but I'm back to wondering how nosuid decreases the overall
security, compared to not using it.  share|improve this question
1 Answer 1  up vote 1 down vote accepted  As far as I
understand, (I'm not using perl and even less suidperl), the
manpage doesn't says nosuid is less secure, just that despite
being more secure at first sight, it can be easily defeated by
suidperl.  share|improve this answer I would understand if they
had just said that. But suidperl is tangential, right? If you
manage to install any suid interpreter you can use it to run a
script as root. That's true whether or not the filesystem is
mounted nosuid, so nosuid is not *r