Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:02:46 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: ncb@zip.com.au, brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposed secure-level 4 patch Message-ID: <12512.929865766@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:35:33 %2B1000." <199906200735.RAA06817@cheops.anu.edu.au>
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In message <199906200735.RAA06817@cheops.anu.edu.au>, Darren Reed writes: >> I actually thought of that at one point: You load a bunch of approved >> md5 sums into the kernel, set a flag and then only binaries which >> are on the list can be executed. Trouble is that shared libs needs >> to be checked too and they're handled in userland. Of cource static >> binaries could be made mandatory. > >Sounds just like what's under development for NetBSD right now. Maybe >you should wait until it's complete there and then import it ? It's below rank #50 on my TODO list, so unless they're very incompetent there is no doubt they'll get to it before me :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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