Re: file flags in /modules

From: Darren Pilgrim (dmp@pantherdragon.org)
Date: 05/23/02


Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 17:15:40 -0700
From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>
To: Stephanie Wehner <_@r4k.net>

Stephanie Wehner wrote:
> Is there any particular reason why the immutable flag is turned on for
> /kernel, but not for any loadable modules ?

To make it harder to accidentally overwrite the kernel. There's no
real security gain.

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