Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 03:25:41 -0500 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Harald Servat <redcrash@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comment on section 24.7.5 Message-ID: <AANLkTimViBS46wBvzG%2B%2BjysWM3jv8TZrjtFf2bKDEovL@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik5WabOHQDtCHgyA%2BH9NjErSfNMSWFUJnaJxpFo@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTik5WabOHQDtCHgyA%2BH9NjErSfNMSWFUJnaJxpFo@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Harald Servat <redcrash@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > today I did my first and successful "update from source" of my FreeBSD > box. However, I'd like to comment you that I found a tricky part when > issuing make installworld because I had my /tmp partition mounted with the > option "noexec". That made make command prevent installing the new system. > When I turned that option off from /etc/fstab and remounted the /tmp > partition, then installworld worked as a charm. > > Could be a nice addition to section 24.7.5 a note with a text like "make > sure that your /tmp partition allows executing programs or /etc/fstab does > not disallow executing programs" ? > > Thank you for your work & merry xmas! > -- > Such a change makes the computer very vulnerable to malicious attacks with respect to security . Therefore , it may be useful also to add the following sentence : Such a change should only be made to systems which they are not exposed to public access for security reasons . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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