[FreeNX-kNX] freenx and pax enabled ("hardened") kernel?

[Alexander Skwar]

Alexander Skwar wrote:

> Well, according to <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/hardenedfaq.xml#paxnoelf>,
> that's because I set in kernel .config: " [*]   Disallow ELF text relocations".
> This can be switched off using the "chpax" utility by doing
> "chpax -m $bin", but for some reason, when I did this against
> nxagent and libXcompext.so.1.5.0, I still cannot login to
> nx.
> 
> Does anyone know how to fix this?

I do now :)

chpax is the wrong tool. With "paxctl -m /usr/NX/bin/nxagent"
(and also "paxctl -m /usr/bin/xmessage"), MPROTECT check can be
disabled. This works very fine!

Alexander Skwar
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