From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 9:41:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f3.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB58C37B719 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:41:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from burnscharlesn@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:41:42 -0800 Received: from 24.21.122.151 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:41:42 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.21.122.151] From: "Charles Burns" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disabling kernel modules Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:41:42 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Mar 2001 17:41:42.0985 (UTC) FILETIME=[8A941B90:01C0A59B] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello FreeBSD users, Several documents that I have read which were related to securing FreeBSD recommended disabling loadable kernel modules. I haven't done this because I do not know how FreeBSD works with modules. I come from the Linux world where, unlike in FreeBSD, modules are used very extensively. Would someone be so kind as to tell me what problems may occur by disabling kernel modules? I currently do not manually start any modules, but I have noticed that modules are compiled when I rebuild the system. Are these modules loaded automatically? If so, will disabling loadable module support disable the services that hese modules provide, or will they be automatically compiled into the kernel, or are those modules unimportant, or...? Thanks for help ahead of time. I would like to have a unnecessarily secure server (if such a thing is possible), but don't want to kill the server while securing it. Charles Burns _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message