On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote:
>
>
> Mark Newton wrote:
> >
> > Karl Pielorz wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, a nice, effective - and simply way of replacing syscall's on FreeBSD...
> > > Some might say a little too 'simple'?
> >
> > Garbage. You can do this on any OS, whether it supports loadable
> > modules or not, if you've managed to win sufficient privileges through
> > some other means.
>
> I was actually leaning towards that... My boss had kittens here (we have 12
> FreeBSD boxes running the show now), until I'd explained it to him... If
> syscall's need to be replaced, they need to be replaced - and if they are
> replaceable ... (I'll stop there) :)
>
> The article (from what I can remember) didn't actually go out of it's way to
> say you have to have be root to load the modules in the first place :) - Maybe
> it's warrants some kind of response page putting up somewhere? - this is also
> getting off topic for -hackers :(...
It was mentioned when describing the conditions for allowing the file load
(securelevel == 0 && uid == 0).
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