Sven Arvidsson wrote the following on 27.01.2007 23:51: >>> There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not >>> executable. In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful >>> because it is trivial to work around. > > At least the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 work around shouldn't work anymore > according to the manual.
ok >> Yes that´s what the harden howto also say. >> I am just wondering if this still applies today because this howto seems >> to be from 2000/2001 that must have been pre woody and we are now on the >> way to etch. > > The Securing Debian Manual was last updated about ten days ago, > "Version: 3.11, Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:05:57 +0100". ic >> Are the implications that this howto talks about still all true? > > The debconf / apt issue referred to in the manual, there are comments > about working around this in bug 116448. I will have a closer look there once again. Thanks ;) bye Thilo -- gpg key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
