Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:54:58 +0900 | From | Bruce Harada <> | Subject | Re: Hardwired drivers are going away? |
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:20:41 +0100 Frank van de Pol <fvdpol@home.nl> wrote:
> If you want to secure your box, why don't you simply put a lock on it and > throw away the key? Really, what might help the paranoid admins in this case > is a setting in the kernel which basically disables the ability to load or > unload modules. Of course once set this setting can not been turned with > rebooting the box.
...and how would you guarantee that this setting remains set, in the face of some nasty little cracker screwing around with /dev/kmem?
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