reassign 481295 debconf forcemerge 223683 481295 thanks On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:05:44AM +0200, Meinhard Schneider wrote: > Package: openssh-server > Version: 1:4.3p2-9etch1 > Severity: important > > Just updated openssh-* and got this message: > [...] > Preconfiguring packages ... > Can't exec "/tmp/openssh-server.config.35001": Permission denied at > /usr/share/perl/5.8/IPC/Open3.pm line 168. > open2: exec of /tmp/openssh-server.config.35001 configure 1:4.3p2-9 failed at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 58 > openssh-server failed to preconfigure, with exit status 9 > [...]
This is a well-known and long-standing behaviour of debconf, and not anything that openssh itself is doing specially. Note that the noexec option is fairly useless for security purposes (except to slow people down a little bit) as you could in principle just run the script manually through an appropriate interpreter. > I believe it is legal to mount /tmp without binary exec support for > security improvement. Executing scripts from /tmp is IMHO a very bad > idea. If you want to do this, you need to remount it exec while installing Debian packages. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
