On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:34:49 +0100 David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Let's start a discussion if /dev/kmem is worth keeping around and > fixing/maintaining or if we should just remove it now for good. The last time I used /dev/kmem was in 2003. While in Germany, my home firewall (in the US) got rooted. I could ssh into the box but had no way to shut it down because the rootkit took over all those commands (luckily it still allowed me to become root). I finally killed the box with: # ls -lR / > /dev/kmem ;-) But today I have other means of killing the box (or at least crippling it). Thus, it's obsolete in my book. -- Steve
