From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 8 5:44:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (breg.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 194F037B40B for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 05:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3475E2D041D; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 07:44:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f88CijF77264; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 07:44:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 07:44:45 -0500 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: Alexander Langer Cc: deepak@ai.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel-loadable Root Kits Message-ID: <20010908074445.A77252@sheol.localdomain> Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com References: <200109081052.f88AqRG30016@sheol.localdomain> <20010908141700.A53738@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <20010908072542.A57605@sheol.localdomain> <20010908143231.A53801@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010908143231.A53801@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>; from alex@big.endian.de on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:32:31PM +0200 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 Sep 08, at 02:32 PM, Alexander Langer wrote: > > Thus spake D J Hawkey Jr (hawkeyd@visi.com): > > > > This still lets you load own kernel modules. > > Not if you blow away the /modules directory (note that I haven't tried > > this). > > /me hands Dave a decent C compiler and some C h0h0magic. I didn't write "build the kernel without it". As I wrote, I hadn't tried it. I take it one cannot remove that tree, even after seeing that the kernel doesn't need it? I'm meaning run-time here, not build-time. > Alex Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message