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Date:      Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:23:59 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>, scex <scex@dqc.org>, "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shell history
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980829191526.6282G-100000@aniwa.sky>
In-Reply-To: <19980829012245.54585@futuresouth.com>

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On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 10:42:52PM -0700, Jan B. Koum  woke me up to tell me:
> > 	Hmm.. you are right, but what will stop an attacker who has
> > freebsd box or has access to one to download the binary?
> 
> mount -u -o noexec /home?
> (and /tmp, of course)

Does this stop an attacker doing something like loading a file as a
library from perl, using code on stdin?

ANdrew




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