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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:24:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question: kern.securelevel
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On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Stephen Roome wrote:

> 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.

Don't touch that.

It's sort of a holdover from SysV and don't mean a whole lot on FreeBSD.
You'll have to ask hackers@freebsd.org for the full ramifications of
adjusting the kernel securelevel.

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