From owner-freebsd-security Sat Aug 29 00:27:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25599 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aniwa.sky (aniwa.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.56.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25587 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:27:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by aniwa.sky (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA05027; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:24:00 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:23:59 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton X-Sender: andrew@aniwa.sky Reply-To: andrew@squiz.co.nz To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: "Jan B. Koum " , scex , "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell history In-Reply-To: <19980829012245.54585@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 10:42:52PM -0700, Jan B. Koum woke me up to tell me: > > Hmm.. you are right, but what will stop an attacker who has > > freebsd box or has access to one to download the binary? > > mount -u -o noexec /home? > (and /tmp, of course) Does this stop an attacker doing something like loading a file as a library from perl, using code on stdin? ANdrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message