Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux | Date | Wed, 01 Apr 1998 09:41:18 +0100 | From | Tethys <> |
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>do you really think a kernel driver (if KGI or anything else) can or >even should protect the system from every possible abuse ? hey, why >not talking about > > cat /dev/zero > /dev/mem >or > cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
Hmmm. Let me think. Maybe that would be because any user can crash their X server, but you need the appropriate permissions to overwrite /dev/{mem,sda}. You can't protect the system from a malicious or incompetent user with root access. You can protect it from "normal" users.
Tet
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