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Date:      Thu, 21 May 1998 11:39:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
To:        regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld)
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Virus on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199805211839.LAA08124@burka.rdy.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980521181555.59333@deepo.prosa.dk> from Philippe Regnauld at "May 21, 98 06:15:55 pm"

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Philippe Regnauld writes:
> Greg A. Woods writes:
> 
> > Anyone who's read that article and has even the tiniest amount of
> > imagination would *NEVER* run LKMs on a production machine.  Sure
> 
> 	BTW, is there a mechanism to disable loading of LKMs ?
> 	(of course, removing the modload command is one way) -- I was
> 	thinking about something that looked at the securelevel
> 	and refused to load/unload a module depending on it.

You can't load LKMs if your secure level > 0.
Just to make sure you can define NO_LKM in your kernel config file :-)

> 
> -- 
>  -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]-
>      «Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead
>       IN and the living  OUT!  The archetypical corporate firewall?»
>                                                        - S. Kelly Bootle
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