Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:20:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: secure level diffs to kern_mib.c, LINT Message-ID: <199610061420.QAA08151@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610061132.VAA25153@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Oct 6, 96 09:32:19 pm"
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > Actually, securelevel 1 is normally so insecure that it shouldn't be used. > It essentially only provides write protection of /dev/mem and /dev/kmem. > The write protection on mounted disks is worthless becauses there are > lots of aliases. Even plain BSD has a whole disk partition, and FreeBSD > has lots of slices and SCSI control devices. The SCSI control devices should deny their service if securelevel is ``secure enough''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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