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

[Rudolph Pereira]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:45:58PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> 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.
If you're running as root, you should be able to make a temp directory
somewhere where you can exec things, and then point TMP or TMPDIR or
whatever the installer/pkg uses (and it *should* use something like
this) there.