Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:44:01 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Allan Saddi <asaddi@philosophysw.com> Cc: Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net>, Antoine Beaupre <beaupran@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>, "Rashid N. Achilov" <shelton@sentry.granch.ru>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern.securelevel and X Message-ID: <199910210344.UAA41185@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:34:57 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910151431080.59290-100000@main.nwserv.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910151431080.59290-100000@main.nwserv.com>, Allan Sa
ddi writes:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Steve Reid wrote:
>
> > But I don't think FreeBSD has that capability. I haven't seen any
> > mention of a FreeBSD aperture driver, not even in vaporware form.
> > Maybe people just don't realize such a thing is possible?
>
> I used to run X with high securelevels back in 2.2.x. I simply started
> X/xdm before upping the securelevel. This seemed to work fine. I haven't
> verified that it still works w/ 3.x, however.
That was before the mmap security fix.
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Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
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