From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 9:54:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C38537BDBF for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:54:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (yogotech.nokia.com [4.22.66.156]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04612; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:54:37 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17450; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:54:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006071654.JAA17450@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Bjoern Fischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200006070728.AAA97354@apollo.backplane.com> References: <393C11B4.D40B9EBD@vangelderen.org> <200006052351.QAA00547@mass.cdrom.com> <20000606215317.A1984@frolic.no-support.loc> <200006070728.AAA97354@apollo.backplane.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. This is great for your multi-user desktop/workstation systems, but it kind of really sucks for my laptop, which has device drivers coming/going on a regular basis as I insert/remove cards on the fly. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message