On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:00:07PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> I was considering banning loadable modules, to increase protection
> against r00tkits ...

You can load a module that disables any later module loading to achieve
the same sort of thing.  It's totally pointless, though, because root
can still write to kernel memory and load modules/patch the kernel that
way.  Disabling moduling loading makes very little difference.

Cheers,
-mjg
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