From: Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:49:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070515144925.5e6d0d56@pascal.spore.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705150921.17733.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:21:17 +0200
Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:57, Dan Farrell wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200
> >
> > Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > > 1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel
> > > 2/ disables loadable modules completely
>
> > But Why? What's the benefit?
>
> Well, disabling loadable modules is generally considered to be good
> for the purpose of hardening your system. For example, some rootkits
> use LKMs, and removing loadable modules support might help to prevent
> such attacks.
Interesting, thanks. I'd never heard of LKM rootkits, although the
concept is I suppose a good one, as far as defeating security goes. I
must say I'm not going to start worrying about it, but point taken
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-14 15:48 [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel Grant
2007-05-14 16:09 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-14 22:37 ` Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
2007-05-14 21:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-15 2:16 ` Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
2007-05-17 20:17 ` Grant
2007-05-14 18:18 ` Dale
2007-05-15 0:33 ` Mark Kirkwood
2007-05-15 1:57 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-15 7:21 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-05-15 19:49 ` Dan Farrell [this message]
2007-05-15 20:06 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-17 6:38 ` Mark Kirkwood
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2007-05-15 0:54 burlingk
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