From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 26 08:07:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA25021 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 08:07:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA25016 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 08:07:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA12339 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 11:08:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 11:08:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Cross" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl -A In-Reply-To: <19970426134218.CV17208@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As David E. Cross wrote: > > > I thought the kernel always ran at securelevel 1 when in multi-user > > (that is what init(8) implies). > > -1 Permanently insecure mode - always run the system in level 0 mode. > > This should not be the default, but should only be in effect with > options INSECURE (that's what the other BSDs use for -1 mode). > The init(8) man page describes the differences between the different run levels, except for level -1. What is the difference between level -1 and 0? -- David Cross