From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 14 1:26: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0190314D86 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 01:26:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA20143; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:25:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:25:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Greg Black Cc: Garrett Wollman , Darren Reed , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Module magic In-Reply-To: <19990713122520.5758.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Greg Black wrote: > Robert Watson writes: > > > > > > FWIW, I believe NetBSD systems (and OpenBSD systems) ship configured to > > > > > boot with securelevel == 0, as opposed to FreeBSD which appears to default > > > > > to -1. > > > > > > > > We think our users are more concerned about X working. > > > > > > Are you saying that X does not work when securelevel >= 0 under > > > FreeBSD? > > > > If I recall, the XiG Accelerated X product requires direct access to > > memory. vm_mmap.c: > > > > [...] > > > > Their code should probably not do this, as direct memory access violates > > kernel safety. > > Can anybody tell me if this breakage only applies to XiG's > Accelerated X or if it is also an issue with XFree86? I believe only for XiG, but I have not tried it in quite a while. The best thing to do to test this is to bump up the sysctl, and then see if X works. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Computing Laboratory at Cambridge University Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message