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Re: suid-perl



On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > As it is, noexec is almost useless.  I can't help thinking that
> > *all* interpreters *should* check noexec status.
> 
> What's the point?  Such files can be copied to /tmp and run there....

If one were trying to secure such a system then you would probably make
all user-writable areas (i.e. /tmp and /home) noexec,

Not that I'm trying to do this myself, but this seems to be what noexec is
about (and fails to acheive).

Jules

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