On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 11:56 +0200, MichaÅ Piotrowski wrote: > 2010/9/20 Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On 09/20/2010 06:43 AM, Ralph Loader wrote: > >> > >>> After all these years, something from the fedora repos > >>> (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still > >>> creating an (empty) /etc/modprobe.conf file. > >> > >> Looks like it's a minor security hole too: > > > > Not sure I'd call that minor considering what you can do via entries in > > that file. > > You can blacklist the firewall modules - it can be critical :) Why on earth would that be critical? The firewall is just a band-aid. If it does anything useful, your system was broken (or infected) already. Seriously, if there is *any* case where the lack of firewall would be 'critical', please file a bug for that. There are *much* more interesting things that someone could do with arbitrary write access to /etc/modprobe.conf -- dwmw2 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
