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Re: Linux 3.2: backports some features from mainline kernel (3.7)?



On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 12:45 +0100, daniel curtis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You have written that the sysctl kernel.modules_disabled=1 option
> is available. I know that, but with cryptographically signed modules
> the kernel can check the signature and refuse to load any module 
> that can't be verified. Whether this sysctl option offers something
> similar?

It's even more secure! :-)

> By writing, that symlink and hardlink restrictions are already
> backported
> and enabled by default in the Debian package, You mean a kernel
> package,
> right?

Yes, the Debian package of the Linux kernel, that's what we talk about
here...

Ben.

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