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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2002 17:15:40 -0700
From:      Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>
To:        Stephanie Wehner <_@r4k.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: file flags in /modules
Message-ID:  <3CEC34AC.4F2EEEB5@pantherdragon.org>
References:  <20020522194304.GA70619@r4k.net>

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Stephanie Wehner wrote:
> Is there any particular reason why the immutable flag is turned on for
> /kernel, but not for any loadable modules ?

To make it harder to accidentally overwrite the kernel.  There's no
real security gain.

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