From owner-freebsd-security Fri Oct 5 2: 8:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from shikima.mine.nu (pc1-card3-0-cust143.cdf.cable.ntl.com [62.252.49.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E2237B407 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 02:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rasputin by shikima.mine.nu with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15pQy8-00009K-00 for security@freebsd.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:08:32 +0100 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:08:32 +0100 From: Rasputin To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel-loadable Root Kits Message-ID: <20011005100832.A547@shikima.mine.nu> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <20011004023034.U8391@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011004173535.0A2DE3B19D@gemini.nersc.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011004173535.0A2DE3B19D@gemini.nersc.gov>; from dart@nersc.gov on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:35:34AM -0700 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 * Eli Dart [011004 19:30]: > > In reply to "Crist J. Clark" : > > [snip] > > > Have fun. Unless there is outpouring from people who love the idea, > > I'm not going to commit these to FreeBSD. > > Please consider this as part of an outpouring of support from people > who love the idea. "me too". Isn't this fairly common among the other BSDs as well? An alternative to securelevel is sometimes useful, and KLDs are a fairly well-known attack method against *BSD. I don't see any harm in adding it as an option - it's doesn't have to (definitely shouldn't be) the default, of course. > I don't always have the option of running a box > in securelevel 1, and I would like to have this knob available, even > though it doesn't fix the problem all the way. Something similar > used to exist in FreeBSD 3.x -- I was sorry when it went away. > > --eli -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message