Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel | Date | Sun, 13 Jun 1999 08:09:05 -0400 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <19990612211802.A28762@chelm.cs.nmt.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu writes: +----- | On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 03:09:27PM +0800, David Luyer wrote: | > > yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote: | > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 11:59:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: | > > > > I would really like | > > > > to boot up monolitic kernel on my laptop and _still_ use pcmcia ne2k. | > > > Why? | > > Faster. Smaller. Fewer TLB entries. | > > Arguably by negligable amounts. | > Also more secure, or at least less simple to do evil things if broken in to | | So someone breaks in and is able to either trash module objects or | run insmod, and if there are no module objects, that person can | now do less damage? +--->8
If they can run insmod or trash module objects, they can replace the kernel and run lilo, then force a reboot. I see no security improvement, and it's not *that* much harder.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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