Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261250AbVAMRS7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:18:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261234AbVAMRSj (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:18:39 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:41700 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261256AbVAMRRv (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:17:51 -0500 Subject: Re: thoughts on kernel security issues From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, Greg KH , chrisw@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <20050112185133.GA10687@kroah.com> <20050112161227.GF32024@logos.cnet> <20050112205350.GM24518@redhat.com> <20050112182838.2aa7eec2.akpm@osdl.org> <20050113033542.GC1212@redhat.com> <20050113082320.GB18685@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1105632757.4624.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:12:37 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 608 Lines: 13 On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 16:38, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It wouldn't be a global flag. It's a per-process flag. For example, many > people _do_ need to execute binaries in their home directory. I do it all > the time. I know what a compiler is. noexec has never been worth anything because of scripts. Kernel won't load that binary, I can write a script to do it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/