[1137] in bugtraq
Re: Re[2]: snooper watchers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Strickland)
Wed Mar 1 11:27:32 1995
From: Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk>
To: "Nayfield, Rod" <rnayfield@mail.iconnet.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 13:57:27 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: proff@suburbia.apana.org.au, jna@concorde.com, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9502017940.AA794076575@mail.IConNet.COM> from "Nayfield, Rod" at Mar 1, 95 08:37:22 am
>
> The best thing to do is take the nit support out of the kernel and
> remove /dev/nit. Now someone would have to build a new kernel and
> reboot the machine to replace the nit support.
>
> If you are overly concerned about this, you can set the boot device
> (in the rom monitor on a sparc) to boot off of some other disk, one
> that is not bootable or not there. Then a reboot/fastboot/shutdown
> -r/etc will not be able to automatically bring the system up. I don't
> believe that you can specify boot devices from a unix reboot type
> command.
is it not possible for a hacker to set his own boot device before performing his
reboot, and then reset it back to whatever-it-was later? ie by messing with
/dev/openprom or whatever its called
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