Date: 10 Jul 2000 09:08:43 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making the snoop device loadable. Message-ID: <xzpg0pi31j8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Alfred Perlstein's message of "Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:57:03 -0700" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007091524430.407-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007100149380.88568-100000@login-1.eunet.no> <20000709165702.V25571@fw.wintelcom.net>
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[moving from -arch to -chat] Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> writes: > * Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> [000709 16:54] wrote: > > Thing is; disabling kernel modules will avail you little, as an > > illegitimate user can still use the memory devices to access physical > > memory, and thus binary patch a live kernel. This is hard, but it can, and > > has been done. Eivind mentioned one particular case with a person who > > binary-patched the kernel of an old Unix to bypass the 14 character file > > name length limitation without severing the uptime. > I owe that person a beer. He's a committer (tegge@freebsd.org). The OS in question, IIRC, was DolphinOS on an ND UniLine 8820 (colloquially known as Flipper). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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