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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 97 18:55:07 +0100
From:      "Frode Nordahl" <froden@bigblue.no>
To:        "Sean Kelly" <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
Cc:        "freebsd-security@freebsd.org" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: schg flag...
Message-ID:  <199709171655.SAA26869@login.bigblue.no>

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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:45:31 -0600, Sean Kelly wrote:

>The schg flag can't be changed when the system is running in securelevel
>1 or 2.  See init(1) for more details.
>
>According to that man page, the securelevel is usually set in /etc/rc
>during bootup.  A quick grep through /etc/* doesn't contain any
>reference to securelevel, though.  You could probably add it yourself to
>your own rc files, but it'd be nice if there were an /etc/rc.conf entry
>for it.

Ok... Well then's a question, why is FreeBSD's standard mode to run in leve -1?  Isn't that a bit suicidal?
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