Robert James Kaes wrote: > My /tmp directory is located on it's own partition and mounted as > rw,noexec,nosuid. This is a problem for apt-get, which tries to run the > preconfigure scripts for a deb from /tmp/config.*. Is there any way to > tell apt-get to place the configure scripts in a different location?
Set APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir in apt.conf Note that noexec filesystems provide little or no protextion against an attacker who knows how to execute non-executable binaries with ld.so. joey@silk:~>cp /bin/ls . joey@silk:~>chmod 644 ls joey@silk:~>ls -l ls -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey 43916 Jan 15 12:20 ls joey@silk:~>/lib/ld-2.2.4.so ./ls CVS bin doc lib lwce package-sync.log src GNUstep debian html ls mail screenshot.png tmp -- see shy jo
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