Grrr... modprobe.conf

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 09:56:56 UTC 2010


2010/9/20 Bryn M. Reeves <bmr at redhat.com>:
> On 09/20/2010 06:43 AM, Ralph Loader wrote:
>>
>>> After all these years, something from the fedora repos
>>> (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still
>>> creating an (empty) /etc/modprobe.conf file.
>>
>> Looks like it's a minor security hole too:
>
> Not sure I'd call that minor considering what you can do via entries in
> that file.

You can blacklist the firewall modules - it can be critical :)

>
> Bryn.

Regards,
Michal


More information about the test mailing list