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Date:      Sat, 8 Sep 2001 07:44:45 -0500
From:      D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        deepak@ai.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel-loadable Root Kits
Message-ID:  <20010908074445.A77252@sheol.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20010908143231.A53801@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>; from alex@big.endian.de on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:32:31PM %2B0200
References:  <GPEOJKGHAMKFIOMAGMDIGEHGFHAA.deepak_ai.net@ns.sol.net> <200109081052.f88AqRG30016@sheol.localdomain> <20010908141700.A53738@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <20010908072542.A57605@sheol.localdomain> <20010908143231.A53801@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>

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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

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