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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:54:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kerneld for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200006071654.JAA17450@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006070728.AAA97354@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <393C11B4.D40B9EBD@vangelderen.org> <200006052351.QAA00547@mass.cdrom.com> <20000606215317.A1984@frolic.no-support.loc> <200006070728.AAA97354@apollo.backplane.com>

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>     I personally consider leaving the kernel module loadable intact after
>     boot to be a huge, huge security hole.  Loadable modules... fine, but
>     once the machine goes multi-user I want to up the securelevel and
>     that disables any further kld operations.

This is great for your multi-user desktop/workstation systems, but it
kind of really sucks for my laptop, which has device drivers
coming/going on a regular basis as I insert/remove cards on the fly.




Nate


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