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From: Paul Traina <pst@jnx.com>
Subject: Re: kern/3365: LKMs are a security hole -- need way to disable them 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/3365; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Traina <pst@jnx.com>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/3365: LKMs are a security hole -- need way to disable them 
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 17:37:25 -0700

 Cool, thanks.  Will close.
 
   From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
   Subject: Re: kern/3365: LKMs are a security hole -- need way to disable them
   >I'd like to request two changes:
   >
   >(a) if securitylevel > N then LKM loading is disabled in the kernel
   >	(N = the same level that disables changing of the schg flag)
   
   This is standard in all versions later than 2.1.0 (N = 0).
   
   Bruce