Hello,

We have talked about this on the phone, but just for the record:

No, there is no reason for this. We load kernel modules at runtime, but only root does that. AFAIK there is no unprivileged user loading anything whatsoever.

-Michael

> On 5 Oct 2020, at 17:07, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello development folks,
> 
> just to make sure I am not about to submit another breaking patch: Is there any
> legitimate reason why a non-privileged user shall load kernel modules on an IPFire
> machine during its runtime?
> 
> Personally, I am only aware of some connection tracking stuff, but these require
> a reboot, thus being out of scope. Unless I overlooked something else, I would like
> to file a patch turning dev.tty.ldisc_autoload to 0. :-)
> 
> (Further information is available at https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/15/890)
> 
> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller