On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> In fact, the most interesting thing about this (rather large) document
> is that it's the best documentation I've seen on klds. I don't know
> why anybody would want to use it for compromising security, since it's
> a *lot* of work, and to even get as far as installing it you have to
> be root already, so you would have plenty of easier alternatives.
It's more for hiding yourself once you're already in; if you load a module
at boot-time which hides the fact that it was loaded, hides the module itself
from being listed by the filesystem syscalls, and hides whatever else you
want, you could presumably stay hidden a lot easier.
Kris
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