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Subject: Re: [suse-security] masquerading and a monolithic kernel
From: Matthias Krawen (adminhans-bredow-institut.de)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 05:14:37 CDT

At 10:16 31.05.00 +0200, you wrote:

Hi !

>Experimenting with a firewall I compiled a monolithic kernel with
>masquerading and without loadable module support so as to make it
>impossible to subvert the kernel by a malicious module.
I wondered about this too, but dont you need root-rights in order to load a
kernel modul ?

MfG
  Matthias

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