[LUNI] Securing /tmp

Martin Maney maney at two14.net
Sat Jul 14 12:35:37 CDT 2007


On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 09:49:19AM -0500, Branko Kotur wrote:
> I've already set my /tmp as noexec, but everything I've seen regarding this 
> topic only mentions using noexec.  I haven't been able to find anything that 
> would allow me to prevent perl/shell scripts from running inside /tmp.  Does 
> anyone know if this is possible, and if so, how?

Making /tmp unwritable would do it... can't think of much else offhand!

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