Questions tagged [noexec]
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How useful is mounting /tmp noexec?
Many people (including the Securing Debian Manual) recommend mounting /tmp with the noexec,nodev,nosuid set of options. This is generally presented as one element of a 'defense-in-depth' strategy, by preventing the escalation of an attack that lets…
Phil Miller
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‘noexec’ option on NTFS under Windows?
Is there equivalent filesystem option on Windows like 'noexec' mount option on Linux? Is it the same if I set "Read" permission, but unset "Read & Execute" permisson on root directory (whole drive)? For the local users, but also for the LAn users…
igustin
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Compiling passenger-install-nginx-module; "C compiler gcc is not found"
I am in the middle of a process of installing Redmine served with passenger and nginx with this tutorial. With the passenger-install-nginx-module, it works fine and during compiling it outputs an error with this,
Compiling and installing Nginx...
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When installing JIRA Data Center on Linux the installer fails saying it cannot run its internal Java from /tmp
In our network, all VMs and server have /tmp mounted as noexec for security purposes. Trying to install Jira ends in a failure trying to run Java from that folder. How do I overcome this problem?
Juan Jimenez
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Noexec vs chmod -R -x for malware interogation?
I am setting up a Linux box to examine malware samples. I wanted to create a directory where I could safely unzip each sample and run very basic triage commands against the file to collect information about the sample (for example, hashing the…
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Alternative location to store tmp files on linux
So I have a python script that I compile with pyinstaller to a single file. at the time of running, by default, the script will unbundle the modules in /tmp/ also you can change the default TMPDIR at the time of compilation.
PROBLEM:
As you might…
Amir Alamani
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