From owner-freebsd-security Thu Oct 4 23:38:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E0637B401 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.245.134.128.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.134.128]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA24454; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:38:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f956L8H03024; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:21:08 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Peter Chiu Cc: D J Hawkey Jr , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Alexander Langer , deepak@ai.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel-loadable Root Kits Message-ID: <20011004232108.L297@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20010908141700.A53738@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <20010908072542.A57605@sheol.localdomain> <20010908143231.A53801@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <20010908074445.A77252@sheol.localdomain> <20010908181537.A840@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010908102816.B77764@sheol.localdomain> <20010908183728.D840@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010908105308.A78138@sheol.localdomain> <20011004023034.U8391@blossom.cjclark.org> <179163465981.20011004190251@ipfw.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <179163465981.20011004190251@ipfw.org>; from pccb@yahoo.com on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:02:51PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:02:51PM -0400, Peter Chiu wrote: > Hello Crist, > > I love this idea. However, how does it affect vinum? > > Extracted from LINT > # Configuring Vinum into the kernel is not necessary, since the kld > # module gets started automatically when vinum(8) starts. This > # device is also untested. Use at your own risk. > # I like I said, this will prevent you from loading KLDs. (period) -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu cjclark@jhu.edu cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message