Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 08:41:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ean Kingston" <ean@hedron.org> To: Bjö@example.com, "rn" <Kö@example.com>, "nig" <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting /tmp with noexec Message-ID: <1803.216.220.59.169.1112964074.squirrel@216.220.59.169> In-Reply-To: <20050408080256.497F512B037@eurystheus.local> References: <20050408080256.497F512B037@eurystheus.local>
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> Hello,
>
> I wonder if it is safe to mount /tmp with noexec flag. I already discoved
> that I have to pay attention to this before installing a world, because
> this task requires to execute binaries in /tmp. Are there any further
> pitfalls which I should take into account or even could keep me from doing
> this?
I haven't seen a reply to your query so let me say that I have mounted
/tmp noexec for years and the only problems I've had were the installworld
problem you mentioned and a few badly written 3rd party installers that
expect to be able to execute from /tmp. I also mount /tmp nosuexec and
async. Sometimes after a system crash I have to rebuild /tmp because of
the async but the systems just don't crash that often.
--
Ean Kingston
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