Re: 'lock' modules?

From: James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 15:14:54 EST


On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jason Venner wrote:

>
> It would be nice to lock modules down for the case of running in
> chrooted environments, so that even if root is captured, the risk of
> breakout is reduced.
>
> This is weak, since chrooting itself is a weak security feature.
>
> I am guessing virtual machines are more the way of doing this ala the
> IBM s390 way or vmware.

Or the way Malcolm Beattie is working on, with Linux :-)

James.

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