From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 12 5:59:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB2414D44 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 05:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id NAA88548; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:56:24 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3789E5DE.8D318608@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:55:58 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Newton Cc: crypt0genic@ecad.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (forw) References: <199907121149.VAA22311@gizmo.internode.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Newton wrote: > > Karl Pielorz wrote: > > > Yes, a nice, effective - and simply way of replacing syscall's on FreeBSD... > > Some might say a little too 'simple'? > > Garbage. You can do this on any OS, whether it supports loadable > modules or not, if you've managed to win sufficient privileges through > some other means. I was actually leaning towards that... My boss had kittens here (we have 12 FreeBSD boxes running the show now), until I'd explained it to him... If syscall's need to be replaced, they need to be replaced - and if they are replaceable ... (I'll stop there) :) The article (from what I can remember) didn't actually go out of it's way to say you have to have be root to load the modules in the first place :) - Maybe it's warrants some kind of response page putting up somewhere? - this is also getting off topic for -hackers :(... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message