From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 13: 9:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aya.yerphi.am (aya.YerPhI.AM [212.42.192.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2427015687 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sevinian@aya.yerphi.am) Received: from localhost (sevinian@localhost) by aya.yerphi.am (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA25709 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 01:10:23 +0400 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 01:10:23 +0400 (AMT) From: Eugene Sevinian Reply-To: Eugene Sevinian To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel security level; Books In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks Doug, It seems that you are right. I was simply unaware of flags :( Thanks again. Eugene. On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > > Recently I started to use freebsd (3.01) at work , and the first > > thing which I should learn is how to edit some config files in > > /usr/local/etc directory. It was explained in init's man that there are 4 > > levels of security and if it is set to -1 than root can do everything > > according to given file permissions. sysctl tells that this value set to > > -1, so what the matter? At the same time I was able to create new file in > > /usr/local. What I am doing wrong? > > Secure levels are tricky. You should *completely* understand what they do > before setting them, since it can cause unusual system problems. > > I don't know where you read that root has to follow permissions; it's not > on the init(8) manpage. Root can _always_ override permissions (just not > flags; see chflags(8)). > > > Q2. Can you recommend some "must have" books about FreeBSD? Are there > > available in russian as well? > > For newbies, ``The Complete FreeBSD'' from Walnut Creek is useful. The > O'Reilly books on individual daemons (ie, DNS, sendmail) are helpful as > well. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Eugene Sevinian ---------------------------- CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message