sudo guru needed...success

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:50:21PM -0500, Albert Wagner wrote:
> Joel Goguen wrote:
> > Marius might have the right idea, have you tried his suggestion?
> > 
> > # sudo mount -o remount,exec /media/cdrom0
> > # sudo sh /media/cdrom0/installUnix
> > 
> Ah!  That does it.  Thanks to all who replied and especially to you Joel 
> and whoever Marius is (I didn't get his reply to my query).

Are you subscribed to the mailing list?  I replied to the list only.
I'm Cc:ing you now.

> If Marius is 
> reading, I would appreciate an explanation as to why that works.

The "noexec" option is a security measure that prevents you from
executing any applications on the CD-ROM by accident.  It is
traditionally used by the system administrator to prevent users from
hacking the machine by inserting a CD-ROM (or a USB key) with a
suid-root binary.  For today's single user desktops/laptops it is mostly
useful as a safeguard against trojan horses.

The mount command disables this option until you eject the CD.

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
-- 
System going down at 5 this afternoon to install scheduler bug.
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