Re: Linux hardening

paavan shah <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/22/05, AragonX <[email protected]> wrote:
> <quote who="Sean Finkel">
> > I would recommend also securing /tmp (and /var/tmp). Mounting it noexec
> > and nosuid is a good step to take. As well, I modified my local wget and
> > curl programs to *not* download to /tmp or /var/tmp, as no legitimate
> > use for the program (on my servers) will be downloading files to these
> > locations. As well, these two programs are commonly used in web script
> > attacks to retrieve a remote file and execute it.

How did u modify your wget or curl for not to download to /tmp and /var/tmp?

pavan.
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