Re: [SLE] deja vu: kernel too big... so?

[Marc Mutz]

Richard Adams wrote:
> 
<snip>
> O, again a user cannot do that, /etc/conf.modules is read-only or at least
> it should be.
> 
<snip>
> > That is clearly a very hypothetical attack, because if you have
> > write-access to the root fs, then there are other files that are 
<snip>
> /etc/hosts* should also all be read-only.
> 
'Having write-access to the root fs' was meant as implying either
a) being able to become root, e.g. through 'init=/bin/sh' kernel
parameter
or b) being able to write to / while not using linux, e.g. via dos/win
and a hex editor.

Sorry, if I had not made that clear.

Marc

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