[SunHELP] Security question for /etc/system

[Chris Pinnock]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:06:42PM +0300, Devrim Yilmaz (Garanti Teknoloji) wrote:
> Hi friends;
> 
> I will change /etc/system to add below parameters for bug overflow. But i
> wonder any reason not to add these. Do you have any idea and experience
> about that?
> 
> Regards,
> dEVRim-
> 
> set noexec_user_stack=1
> set noexec_user_stack_log=1

IIRC, this breaks no known 32-bit application. (The specification for
64-bit SPARC binaries is different and IIRC the stack is not executable
by default...) All this from memory -- could be wrong.

best wishes,
Chris