Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?

Bruce Harada
2002-01-21T00:55:41Z

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:20:41 +0100
Frank van de Pol <fvdpol@home.nl> wrote:

> If you want to secure your box, why don't you simply put a lock on it and
> throw away the key? Really, what might help the paranoid admins in this case
> is a setting in the kernel which basically disables the ability to load or
> unload modules. Of course once set this setting can not been turned with
> rebooting the box.

...and how would you guarantee that this setting remains set, in the face of
some nasty little cracker screwing around with /dev/kmem?