Re: /home as noexec and X

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

olet@ifi.uio.no (Ole J. Tetlie) writes:

   *-"Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <uhlar@fantomas.sk>
   |
   | -> | -> Ship's Log, Lt. Ben Gertzfield, Stardate 091298.0823:
   | -> | -> > an sh script, but I totally agree; Debian should not require
   | -> | -> > ~/.xsession to be executable. I don't think any other Unixes do.
   | -> | -> 
   | -> | -> redhat does ...
   | -> | 
   | -> | probably exactly to be possible for user to decide what shell to use;
   | -> 
   | -> I don't see a problem. If the user wants to choose a weird shell,
   | -> perl or even prolog, he would only have to make the file executable.
   | 
   | will it work when /home will be mounted noexec ?

   I should think so (but I'm found to be wrong 68.32% of the time :-)

Hmm, then we'd be best off assuming you're wrong all the time, that
way we'll be okay more often than not.