On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Paul Herman wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "BE" == Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > BE> revision 1.9
> > BE> date: 1997/06/25 07:31:47; author: joerg; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2
> > BE> Don't ever allow lowering the securelevel at all. Allowing it does
> > BE> nothing good except of opening a can of (potential or real) security
> > BE> holes. People maintaining a machine with higher security requirements
> > BE> need to be on the console anyway, so there's no point in not forcing
> > BE> them to reboot before starting maintenance.
> >
> > Perhaps one of the secure level restrictions should be that you cannot
> > attach to pid 1 via the debugger.
>
> You can't.
>
> Ever since Apr 1997 you couldn't attach gdb to init.
>
How is that done?
Will gdb not attach to init, or will init not let gdb attach?
If the former, then badguy can just use a custom gdb...
Leif
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