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urgh

urgh

Posted Oct 4, 2004 13:25 UTC (Mon) by arafel (subscriber, #18557)
In reply to: urgh by mattdm
Parent article: A new Adore root kit

Give someone sufficient privileges to load a kernel module, and I can guarantee that, if they really want, it will be loaded one way or the other. Bear in mind that any code which you can write to check for an 'allowed' module list can simply be changed to always return 'yes, that module is okay'.


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