> On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > We had an issue like this last year, where someone tried to kill
> > security exploits by putting a monkey wrench into the kernel
> > (I'm refereing to the non-executable stack patches). That change
> > didn't go in, and we're still alive today.
>
> Actually a _lot_ of people run the non-excutable stack and related
> patches. They don't break anything, they stop a lot of the "I read bugtraq
> before my sysadmin" type cracks and the like
>
> There _is_ a definite case for
>
> CONFIG_SECURITY
> CONFIG_SECURITY_NONEXECSTACK
> CONFIG_SECURITY_TRUSTEDPATH
>
> etc.. either in the main tree - or as now as a collection .
Please please please please!!
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