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Re: first draft of "relocatable" module
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: first draft of "relocatable" module |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:28:31 +0100 |
* Ben Pfaff wrote on Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 09:29:53PM CET:
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> If we recommend to use
>
> ./configure --enable-relocatable --prefix=/etc
> make
> make install DESTDIR=/tmp/inst$$
>
> then there should not be a security problem any more, right?
I tend to just use --prefix=$HOME/inst$$.
FWIW, I like that better, too. Or use some other path that only root
can write to, like /opt or /nonexistent.
> > That's a trivial attack on the systems where run path overrides the
> > shared library path variable.
> Thanks for explaining. It's not trivial - you have to know a bit about
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, -rpath, LD_RUN_PATH and the like, in order to understand it.
Yeah, I meant, once you've understood it, it's trivial to implement.
Sorry, upon rereading I have certainly communicated this poorly.
Cheers,
Ralf
- Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Ben Pfaff, 2007/03/01
- Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Bruno Haible, 2007/03/01
- Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Ben Pfaff, 2007/03/02
- Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/03/02
- Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Bruno Haible, 2007/03/04
- Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Ben Pfaff, 2007/03/04
- Re: first draft of "relocatable" module,
Ralf Wildenhues <=
- Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Ben Pfaff, 2007/03/05
- Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Ben Pfaff, 2007/03/05
- Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Ben Pfaff, 2007/03/18
- Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2007/03/05
Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Matthew Woehlke, 2007/03/02
Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Bruno Haible, 2007/03/01
Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Bruno Haible, 2007/03/01
Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Bruno Haible, 2007/03/01
Re: first draft of "relocatable" module, Bruno Haible, 2007/03/01