Re: /dev/nvram on my Celebris

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@redestb.es)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:18:21 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Johnny Tevessen wrote:

> Quoting Riccardo Facchetti (fizban@tin.it):

> Yes. So: Nobody sane working on a box that *might* be taken over
> should enable such settings at compile time. He/she won't even
> be able to reboot if someone became root (by a yet unknown
> attack that might even pass a firewall).

Considering it may be built as a module, I'd say it would be trivial to
compile on the attacked box.

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