Re: Linux login security approaches

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Tue, 08 Dec 1998 17:37:18 -0400


Konrad Rosenbaum <htw6966@htw-dresden.de> said:

[...]

> => it should be much more easy to write a userspace program which
> controls the programs on console terminal than patching the kernel with
> features which make it less abstracted and this way less stable (the only
> program a kernel should call directly is init - nothing else! And this
> only once!)

Then I'm in a state of sin... my kernel calls modprobe(8) via kmod.

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