Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Feature Request: Disabling of Module Loading

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

I really like that idea !
Can you find out which Kernel Patch is providing this feature?

Heiko

On 10/13/2003 11:08:32 PM "Dean Nedelman" wrote:
>I was reading the release notes for Fedora (the latest version of
>RedHat's
>consumer product - in beta).  It had the following comment
>(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/):
>
>------------------
>
>The Fedora Core 0.94 kernel now makes it possible to prevent the
>loading of
>kernel modules. This can be useful for system administrators wanting t=
o
>ensure that only a strictly-controlled set of modules are loaded. To
>disable
>kernel module loading, issue the following command:
>
>echo off > /proc/modules
>
>Once this command has been issued, all further attempts to load kernel=

>modules will fail.
>
>NOTE: Once kernel module loading has been disabled, a reboot is
>required to
>re-enable it.
>
>------------------------
>
>And I was thinking - wouldn't this be a useful feature for Devil-Linux=
?
>After all - we are [presumably] running a "static" environment.  So
>once a
>system is booted, wouldn't we WANT to prevent the loading (and/or
>changing)
>of kernel modules?

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