Social Engineering (was Re: [Mimedefang] survey: dropping password protected file)

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Rob wrote:

> I used to mount /tmp noexec but got bit by that.  On FreeBSD upgrading the
> OS requires that you run temporary binaries in /tmp.  I suspect other
> versions of *nix may suffer a similar problem.

RPM works OK with /tmp mounted noexec, but some badly-behaved installers
(OpenOffice comes to mind) fail.

--
David.