Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: security issue: hard disk lock | Date | Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:32:06 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Jonas Diemer <diemer@gmx.de> said:
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> I figured there could be a kernel compiled-in option that will make the > kernel lock all drives found during bootup. then, a malicous program > would need to install a different kernel in order to harm the drive, > which would be much more secure.
Doing it in initrd should be plenty of time, no need to involve the kernel. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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