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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:15:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        newton@camtech.com.au (Mark Newton)
Cc:        ark@eltex.ru, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD SKIP port updated
Message-ID:  <199903120015.QAA99619@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199903112358.KAA04856@frenzy.ct> from Mark Newton at "Mar 12, 99 10:28:01 am"

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Mark Newton writes:
>  > > I am curious if someone tried to update it to compile in-kernel.
>  > > I don't use LKMs, i have them disabled for security reasons (no flames
>  > > please)
>  > 
>  > Well, there's no reason you couldn't load it at boot time.
>  > Ie, add it to boot.conf (or loader.conf of whatever it's called).
> 
> If you have KLDs disabled that shouldn't work (and it represents a 
> pretty major security issue if it does!)

I thought the disabling of KLD's only blocked the kldload() process.
Guess not.

Hmm.. then I don't know. Maybe you could just stick it in your
kernel compilation directory and tweak the makefile...  ?

-Archie

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