Homework - Cannot exploit bufferoverflow

Question

I am trying to learn to exploit simple bufferover flow technique on Backtrack Linux.

Here is my C program

#include 
#include 

        

Answer 1

I have answered my own question, the problem was "Executable Stack Protection", where in stack memory cannot be executed. This can be disabled in gcc as follows

gcc -z execstack

Answer 2

Have you disabled stack smashing protection in GCC (-fno-stack-protector)?

How to turn off gcc compiler optimization to enable buffer overflow