--On Tuesday, May 29, 2001 17:21:41 -0500 Joi Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:
>
>>
>> Can anyone explain to me why having the file in the path set in
>> ld.so.conf shouldn't be enough?
>
> Heh. Try getting the security nazis to agree to THAT for a user
> application.
Umm... on most systems ld.so.conf can only be modified by root, and
normally you only set it to include "safe" directories. I mean, if I can
load in fake shared libraries into ld.so.conf, I can hose your system
regardless (through libc for example).
--Chris
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