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

From: Mathijs (mathijs@knoware.nl)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 04:15:44 EST


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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