-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 More research into viruses, trojans and worms might convince you otherwise.
On Monday 18 November 2002 8:25 pm, m.w.chang wrote: > got your point, but *IF* the right users and processes could be > guaranteed, then the file system should be modified more for > speed+size and less for security. > > the only last thing that scared me is those stack or buffer attacks > which could enable a remote users to drop into a root prompt. I have > no idea how that could be possible and done. In DOS, when there is a > stack overflow, the whole PC just hanged. no compromise. > > > Yes many. Keep in mind, its not only human users that run > > processes that write to the filesystem. - -- Robert Black Eagle Linux for stability; GPG for security -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE92eRYtjSYKkYJrmcRAp4WAJ0XQNWs6r/Pb2urH4ik0siPVrsWfQCeKz6E zbmp9CicrT6wzuutY3gY/ec= =vsxi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
