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Date:      Sat, 8 Sep 2001 17:19:40 -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:  <20010908171940.B79354@sheol.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20010908203935.B54535@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>; from alex@big.endian.de on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 08:39:35PM %2B0200
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On Sep 08, at 08:39 PM, Alexander Langer wrote:
> 
> Thus spake D J Hawkey Jr (hawkeyd@visi.com):
> 
> > Ah. Well then, as I wrote to Kris, the kernel has to deny KLD loading
> > altogether, it should be a build-time option, and it should have nothing
> > to over-ride this.
> > Or am I still being too simplistic? I haven't been using KLD- or LKM-
> 
> You'd have to remove the whole kld code then, including all
> linker_file stuff.

I have no idea as to the complexities of the task. I'll take your word
for it.

> And, given that, you can still use /dev/mem to manipulate the kernel.

Perhaps it's too off-topic for this list, but I have no clue how one
would; I don't know squat about /dev/mem.

> Alex

Dave

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