Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 00:28:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200006070728.AAA97354@apollo.backplane.com> References: <393C11B4.D40B9EBD@vangelderen.org> <200006052351.QAA00547@mass.cdrom.com> <20000606215317.A1984@frolic.no-support.loc>
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I personally consider leaving the kernel module loadable intact after
boot to be a huge, huge security hole. Loadable modules... fine, but
once the machine goes multi-user I want to up the securelevel and
that disables any further kld operations. If one of the biggest
advantages of FreeBSD is its robustness and reliability, then one
generally does not want to go loading and unloading modules all the
time.
A 'kerneld' like gizmo for FreeBSD would be a waste of time. The
scheme we have now -- having the utility programs load the modules
on the fly (ifconfig, vnconfig, etc...) works wonderfully.
-Matt
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