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From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2004-08-31 12:46:17
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Hey, >I am willing to use some other distribution also, which one do you suggest ? > >I am attaching some info on exec shield. > >Let me know which path do we take from here on : > >1. Different distrubution as per ur suggestion > > I know that all the SuSE version work fine with DL. >2. Tweaking Redhat 9.0 for DEVIL. > > Let's try this first, since it's easier: --- snip --- >There is a new boot-time kernel command line option called exec-shield=, >which has 4 values. Each value represents a different level of security: > > exec-shield=0 - always-disabled > exec-shield=1 - default disabled, except binaries that enable it > exec-shield=2 - default enabled, except binaries that disable it > exec-shield=3 - always-enabled > >the current patch defaults to 'exec-shield=2'. The security level can also >be changed runtime, by writing the level into /proc: > > echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield > --- snap --- Disable it via one of those methods and try again. But please start from scratch ( nwe lfssystem, make mrproper, etc.), since we don't know if the rest of the system is OK. cu Heiko |