From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Dec 2 10:01:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA19294 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:01:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA19280 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:01:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA00192; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:01:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA15668; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:01:48 -0700 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:01:48 -0700 Message-Id: <199712021801.LAA15668@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jin Guojun (ITG staff) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: kern.securelevel auto from 0 to 1 ?bug/feature? In-Reply-To: <199712021656.IAA25972@george.lbl.gov> References: <199712021656.IAA25972@george.lbl.gov> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > No. If you had read my mail, you knew the answer (and even the `how'). > > Unless you want to restrict FreeBSD be used in single user environment, > such as in a person or in a family, to keep X up means only one person > can use a machine when the machine is booted up. You're preaching to the choir here. The fact of the matter is that this is the 'way it is', and if you want it changed, then you must provide a fix to the XFree86 folks, which means figuring out a way to fix it 'safely' inside both XFree and FreeBSD. The other argument is that X is inherently insecure, so if you want a truly secure system, you shouldn't be using X. Nate