RE: 'sign' modules? was: RE: 'lock' modules?

Mathijs (mathijs@knoware.nl)
Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:15:44 +0200 (CEST)


On 07-Jun-2000 ronbarry@es.com wrote:
> To recap, this is NOT an attempt to restrict an intruder (no shit, root can
> do whatever he likes) just to give a friendly "are you _really_ sure you
> know what you are doing?" to the legitimate owner of the machine, lest he
> install a trojan or other nasty.

You cannot protect against a stuppid "root". Ofcause (s)he is "_really_ sure"
otherwise (s)he wouldn't have typed: "su"

me

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