Re: apt-get and /tmp

2002-09-30 Thread Robert James Kaes
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > Set APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir in apt.conf > > Note that noexec filesystems provide little or no protextion against an > attacker who knows how to execute non-executable binaries with > ld.so. Thanks for the information. I didn't know about the ld.so

Re: apt-get and /tmp

2002-09-30 Thread Joey Hess
Robert James Kaes wrote: > My /tmp directory is located on it's own partition and mounted as > rw,noexec,nosuid. This is a problem for apt-get, which tries to run the > preconfigure scripts for a deb from /tmp/config.*. Is there any way to > tell apt-get to place the configure scripts in a diffe

Re: apt-get and /tmp

2002-09-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 30 September 2002 08:54, Robert James Kaes wrote: > Hello, > My /tmp directory is located on it's own partition and mounted as > rw,noexec,nosuid. This is a problem for apt-get, which tries to run the > preconfigure scripts for a deb from /tmp/config.*. Is there any way to > tell apt-g

apt-get and /tmp

2002-09-30 Thread Robert James Kaes
Hello, My /tmp directory is located on it's own partition and mounted as rw,noexec,nosuid. This is a problem for apt-get, which tries to run the preconfigure scripts for a deb from /tmp/config.*. Is there any way to tell apt-get to place the configure scripts in a different location? --