From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:08:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:08:24 -0400 Received: from adsl-196-233.cybernet.ch ([212.90.196.233]:13062 "HELO mailphish.drugphish.ch") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:08:15 -0400 Message-ID: <3BB0F297.D4A9E986@drugphish.ch> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:09:43 +0200 From: Roberto Nibali X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH Cc: Mark Zealey , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Binary only module overview In-Reply-To: <20010924124044.B17377@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20010925084439.B6396@us.ibm.com> <20010925200947.B7174@itsolve.co.uk> <20010925134232.A14715@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Greg, > > > Argus System's PitBull for Linux modifies the kernel. No source or > > > patches for these modifications can be found on the web, so I'm guessing > > > that it's closed source: > > > http://www.argus-systems.com/ > > > > Umm, is it me or is that totally against the GPL? Have you bitched at them about > > this? > > I have only talked to one of their resellers, who could not find a link > to the code anywhere. I have not asked them directly. I will go do > that right now. If you're dealing with argus, ask straight for developers or technical people not resellers. The second problem is that they ceased making their Pitbull LX product available for download on the web for some reasons. Since I work with argus-system products sometime I got the chance of still having a copy of this huge tarball and I made a diff or their actual changes to the 2.2.19 kernel for you. Unfortunately I had to put it onto a non- argus related development site and I will leave it there for the next 12 hours. Grab it, analyse it and convince yourself that they actually go quite into the direction of the LSM framework approach. Actually I talked to one of the argus technical guys about a possible port to the LSM frame- work and he said that they are going to look into it. Of course the lkm with the real security functionality is binary only. Decide yourself ... http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/~ratz/argus.diff Best regards, Roberto Nibali, ratz