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- From: cschneid@iiic.ethz.ch (Christian Andreas Schneider)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: modload
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 17:00:00 +0200
- Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- Message-ID: <4kj6pg$ba6@raf8.iiic.ethz.ch>
- References: <4kd8b4$tc6@serra.unipi.it> <4kfuqg$ap1@raf2.iiic.ethz.ch> <DpouGu.71K@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
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- In article <DpouGu.71K@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>,
- >Modules should load in secure mode only because the machine cannot
- >be guarranteed to be "secure" enough otherwise. And once you've managed
- >to load a module which subverts normal checks, then all you need is
- >normal user access to exploit installed weakness.
- >
- >Remember that sendmail runs as root.
-
- Root can do anything anyway. With or without loading modules. Simply replace
- fingerd for example and you can have root access without having normal user
- access at all. Anyway, I'm not going start a flame war on this ;-)
- Especially since changing this in the kernel source is easy :-)
-
- - Chris
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