From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 14 03:39:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA10424 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 03:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA10418 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 03:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dylan.visint.co.uk (dylan.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.180]) by bagpuss.visint.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA01472 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:39:15 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:39:23 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie question: kern.securelevel Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What does "kern.securelevel" actually do, I seem to remember thinking I was able to lower it on one machine (probably/hopefully wrong), and was wondering what effect it has on anything. [I did look in the man pages, but other than knowing it's integer and raise only it doesn't say much.] I seem to remember that this affects stuff like writing to devices and mounting and whatnot, but can't remember where I found documentation on it. -- Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/