Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 13:28:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: LKMs (Was: Virus on FreeBSD) Message-ID: <199805211728.NAA29451@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980521111653.A9283@homer.louisville.edu> References: <199805210018.RAA04596@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> <199805210149.LAA25157@frenzy.ct> <199805211431.KAA17444@brain.zeus.leitch.com> <19980521111653.A9283@homer.louisville.edu>
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<<On Thu, 21 May 1998 11:16:53 -0400, Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu> said: > Ok, I'll buy off on the idea that LKMs can be bad from a security standpoint. > How does one go about removing that functionality from the system? In the case of FreeBSD, set the security level to 2. The functionality isn't removed -- we don't provide for that -- but it is inaccessible. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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