> > The following patch was originaly for 2.0.32 by solar@false.com. I ported
> > it to 2.1.71 and separated it from another patch that came with it.
>
> This isnt a good fix in some ways. Firstly there are programs that depend upo
> n
> symlinks in /tmp, secondly it doesnt seem to agree with the unix standard.
>
> Thats not to say it isnt a good toy to have around on an insecure box, but
> it shouldnt be a standard thing.
Why not? MANY people are going to enable it if it were in stock
kernel. Why not make this and non-executable stack (at least) as a
compile-time options (turned off by default, that's nice)?
-- Best regards, -- Boris. "An NT server can be run by an idiot, and usually is." -- Tom Holub