Re: use of /tmp by installers

To: ian@ids.org.au (Ian), debian-security@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: use of /tmp by installers
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 13:50:29 +1000
Message-id: <E150xl7-0007Ar-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
In-reply-to: <4425.131.217.34.116.990240668.squirrel@www.ids.org.au>

Ian <ian@ids.org.au> wrote:

> What is debian's stance on this? I would prefer to leave /tmp mounted 
> noexec.

IMHO it's pointless to have /tmp mounted noexec.  Anyone can run programs
there by invoking /lib/ld-linux.so.2 or the relevant interpreter.
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