exec-shield question

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 04.04.2004 schrieb Brian L. Walter um 21:00:

> Greetings,
> 
> I'm playing around with wine, and get
> 
> err:virtual:map_image Standard load address for a Win32 program
> (0x00400000) not available - security-patched kernel ?
> 
> In a wine mailing list, someone suggested "cat "0"
> /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield to totally disable it, and alternatively,
> "setarch i586 wine <wine args>
> 
> However, these seem to no longer work, and digging around, I found you
> can disable exec-shield via a boot time option.  Just how does one go
> about adding options to the kernel/boot?  If it matters, I'm using grub.
> 
> TIA
> Brian

Totally disabling exec-shield is absolutely no option, in special not
just because you want to run wine.

Use a wine package that cares for the exec-shield, like wine packaged by
Che, see newrpms.sunsite.dk.

Alexander


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