Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:36:50 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>, crypt0genic@ecad.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (forw) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907122036060.58023-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <3789E5DE.8D318608@tdx.co.uk>
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > > 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 :(... It was mentioned when describing the conditions for allowing the file load (securelevel == 0 && uid == 0). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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