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Date:      Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel
Message-ID:  <m11OFYh-0008G5C@rip.psg.com>

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> date: 1997/06/25 07:31:47;  author: joerg;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
> 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.

the only time this is annoying to me is that i have to reboot before doing a
buildworld.

randy


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