Eric Paris wrote:
That's not the fatal flaw. The fatal flaw is that I am not going to
write 90% of a rootkit and make it easy to use.
I hate to point out the obvious, but fanotify's ability to intercept
every file access and rewrite the file before the access proceeds is
also 90% of a rootkit...
But fortunately both fanotify and syscall rewriting require root in
the first place.
I think that makes the rootkit argument moot. As long as fanotify
doesn't have a non-root flavour... which really would be handy for
rootkits :-)
Easy != Good.
I agree.
-- Jamie