Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:18:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: joerg@FreeBSD.ORG (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c Message-ID: <199706250918.LAA03564@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199706250731.AAA22382@freefall.freebsd.org> from Joerg Wunsch at "Jun 25, 97 00:31:49 am"
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According to Joerg Wunsch: > joerg 1997/06/25 00:31:49 PDT > > Modified files: > sys/kern kern_mib.c > Log: > Don't ever allow lowering the securelevel at all. Allowing it does > nothing good except of opening a can of (potential or real) security > holes. People maintaining a machine with higher security requirements > need to be on the console anyway, so there's no point in not forcing > them to reboot before starting maintenance. Being a security fix, will it be tagged into RELENG_2_2 also? /Mikael
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