Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:19:12 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: Disabling module loading with a module? |
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On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 03:58:19PM +0200, fvw wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > > It's even easier than that. 2.2.11 and 2.3.12 onwards have a(n almost) > > monotonic bounding set for many privileged operations which the kernel ^^^^^^^^^ > > kernel restricts to root (specifically, the new capability stuff). > I was talking about an already crack box, and echo 0 is as easy as echo 1 :-)
That means that you _can't_ decrease the security, only increase it.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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