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). -- Doug Rabson Mail: [email protected] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
