[Kde-kiosk] Preventing unset of default KDE configurations

Avery Pennarun apenwarr at nit.ca
Wed May 25 17:24:49 CEST 2005


On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:46:18PM +0200, Martijn Klingens wrote:

> This can be mostly avoided by mounting all filesystems where a user has
> write access with 'noexec', but I am not convinced that is 100% foolproof.
> (I'm open to examples that prove me right or wrong, so far it's just a
> feeling.)

Are you sure noexec affects LD_PRELOAD libraries?  I don't really see how it
could, since they're loaded entirely in userspace by ld.so.  If that doesn't
work, well, I guess that's the counterexample to your suggestion :)

Thanks,

Avery


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