On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:59:50PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > Oh and btw, note that we're talking of the (lack of) security of a > "running kernel" here -- because across reboots, there is /really/ > *absolutely* no such thing as "kernelspace security" because the superuser > will simply switch the vmlinuz itself ...
Well, the machine could be booting from cdrom, and could live in a locked machine room. Or people with root on a virtual host don't necessarily have the ability to replace the kernel for that host. --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
