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Date:      Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:38:53 -0500
From:      taxman <taxman@acd.net>
To:        Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A question about kernel modules
Message-ID:  <200303071938.53505.taxman@acd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030307231822.GB1340@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
References:  <200303071155.43785.damien@tougas.net> <200303071807.27524.taxman@acd.net> <20030307231822.GB1340@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>

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On Friday 07 March 2003 06:18 pm, Simon Barner wrote:
> > So optimal security would be have every
> > needed component compiled in, and turn off the ability to load any
> > modules. I have no idea if this can be done or how in FreeBSD.
>
> This is what securelevel(8) is about:

ahh yes, that seems pretty obvious in retrospect.  :) Thanks.
Another example of my incredible ability to understand the conceptual side of 
info sec., and not be able to implement much of it.  oh well, it helps when 
you have nothing terribly important to protect!  :) 

> > http://packetstorm.decepticons.org/papers/unix/bsdkern.htm
>
> Ah, interesting one! Thanks :-)

np

Tim

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