Re: Feature request

From: Sandy Harris (sandyat_private)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 10:37:52 PDT

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    "Titus D. Winters" wrote:
    
    > But seriously, I would agree that a switch to turn off further
    > insertion of modules would be nice.  We have to make sure that our
    > generalized framework will allow for such.  Modules can be very powerful,
    > both for good and evil.
    > 
    > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Kurt Seifried wrote:
    > 
    > > You know something that would be nice is a kernel switch that disabled touching
    > > modules completely, i.e. you boot, load some modules (like subdomain module/etc)
    > > then flip a switch and you can't add or remove modules (sort of like a
    > > securelevel). Yeah, that'd definately be nice.
    > >
    > > Kurt Seifried
    
    In general, the security mechanisms I see as most promising are unidirectional
    moves:
    	once it goes multi-user, you cannot change immutable files
    	once a capability is dropped, ...
    	once you've done chroot(2), ...
    	once the process drops root privilege, ...
    
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