Re: [ADVISORY] 4.4BSD Securelevels

Howie Kaye (howie@COLUMBIA.EDU)
Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:19:13 -0400 (EDT)

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If this secure_level is to prevent certain attacks as root, what stops
root (or someone breaking in with root) from modifying the init
binary, and rebooting to install it, or even having the modified code
just get demand paged in?

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