heads up, folks: random vnc (remote desktop) attempts

Tue Feb 17 11:31:49 UTC 2009

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Norberto Bensa <nbensa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I seem to have some faint memory that /tmp is used by apt and needs to
>> be non-noexec. But I cannot recall for certain.
>
> Hm. I don't know, but if it's true, it is most certainly a bug. apt
> shouldn't rely on /tmp being on a executable partition.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/debconf/+bug/90085

I guess every Linux distro sucks a little bit, isn't it?