Re: Another hook

From: Titus D. Winters (titusat_private)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2001 - 16:23:31 PDT

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    That was my original thought, but with something like a honeypot I
    wouldn't want to just turn off lsmod, since that would be a way to tell
    that the system was abnormal and perhaps fingerprint the system for what
    it is.
    
    -Titus
    
    
    On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Chris Wright wrote:
    
    > * Titus D. Winters (titusat_private) wrote:
    > > Can I get a feel for the idea of having a hook that will govern letting a
    > > module be detected?  I can imagine there are some securiyt modules (mine
    > > for example) that would rather not broadcast their existence via someone
    > > running lsmod.  I think I know where to add it already.
    >
    > I'd feel better about letting vfs hooks handle /proc/modules and placing
    > a generic query hook in sys_query_modules.  this would simply allow you
    > to turn on/off lsmod altogether.  checking each module in a read of
    > /proc/modules or sys_query_modules seems too specific.
    >
    > -chris
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