Subject: Re: Apollo keyboard, serial drivers (announce)
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-hp300
Date: 04/16/1997 14:17:36
Terry Lambert writes:
> > There's a problem even with the lkm approach:
> > 
> > You only can load LKMs during single user mode.
> 
> Why is this?  I don't understand...

Think "securelevel".

If you can load lkm's at any time, you might as well just scrap
securelevels. This is, of course, a possible design decision to make,
but it does lower your security substantially.

Perry