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Date:      Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:49:32 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        CS <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com>
Cc:        The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net>, Andrew Johns <johnsa@kpi.com.au>, "freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: KLD detectors
Message-ID:  <20011022164932.C364@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011022150129.G60205-100000@bigpoop.foo.foo>; from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:07:08PM -0400
References:  <20011022025913.G26647-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> <20011022150129.G60205-100000@bigpoop.foo.foo>

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On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:07:08PM -0400, CS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the info, I'll test it out on a few I've found (bsd versions of
> adore).
> 
> I'm also interested in utilizing securelevels, but I'm still not 100% sure
> that securelevel 1 will actually stop this, as there seem to be a number
> of tools out there to bypass the securelevel restriction.  For example:
> 
> http://www.s0ftpj.org/en/tools.html
> 
> Scroll down to "securelevel bypass":
> http://www.s0ftpj.org/tools/securelvl.tgz

If you actually look at what this is, it is a KLD that once loaded,
will allow users to load KLDs at securelevel > 0. If you have a
securelevel > 0 and do not already have this module loaded, it doesn't
do anything for you. It doesn't break securelevel(8) or provide a
workaround.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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