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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][TRIVIAL] Print a KERN_INFO after a module gets loaded
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 16:24:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23090.1024208649@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jun 2002 01:27:31 -0400." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206150035290.5254-100000@alumno.inacap.cl>

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 01:27:31 -0400 (CLT), 
Robinson Maureira Castillo <rmaureira@alumno.inacap.cl> wrote:
>After some thinking (nothing serious) I came up with the idea of print a 
>KERN_INFO after a module got loaded, why? Think about this, some guy 
>inserts a LKM rootkit, obviously that module (think adore or knark) 
>doesn't say anything when it gets loaded.

Pointless.  The user already has root, any logging can be compromised.

>another example can be simply now the order of a group of 
>pre-requisite modules when you load something using modprobe(8).

man insmod, see /var/log/ksymoops.  


      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-16  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-15  5:27 Robinson Maureira Castillo
2002-06-15  8:09 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-06-15 15:18   ` Robinson Maureira Castillo
2002-06-15 22:41     ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-06-16  1:10 ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-16  6:24 ` Keith Owens [this message]

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