Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel

Michael H. Warfield (mhw@wittsend.com)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 08:54:13 -0400 (EDT)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH enscribed thusly:
> In message <19990612211802.A28762@chelm.cs.nmt.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
[...]

> | > Also more secure, or at least less simple to do evil things if broken in to

> | So someone breaks in and is able to either trash module objects or
> | run insmod, and if there are no module objects, that person can
> | now do less damage?

> If they can run insmod or trash module objects, they can replace the kernel
> and run lilo, then force a reboot. I see no security improvement, and it's
> not *that* much harder.

But a reboot is detectable...

> --
> brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
> system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
> carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
> We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.

Mike

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