From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FprTG-0007Ob-K9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:49:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5CIiYOR009174; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:44:34 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5CIcUwc030394 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:38:30 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Jun 2006 18:38:29 -0000 Received: from N661P001.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [192.168.1.20]) [62.47.26.129] by mail.gmx.net (mp038) with SMTP; 12 Jun 2006 20:38:29 +0200 X-Authenticated: #787166 Message-ID: <448DB4B1.6060508@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:38:41 +0200 From: Jarry User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Module philosophy: Compile-in or Load References: <448CFAAA.7030102@gt.rr.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 15e74558-3513-4025-9b61-562881674849 X-Archives-Hash: 53e48585a90df9b3b69304ac12e1d89d Evan Klitzke wrote: > I have heard a security argument made that it is safer to compile > everything into the kernel, and disable support for modules entirely. I would say this is "a must" on server. This way you would close one potential security leak. Of course, it does not help if you leave a few others opened... :-) Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list