Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 01:27:28 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: secure level diffs to kern_mib.c, LINT Message-ID: <199610061527.BAA30921@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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''. They already deny service if they are opened at securelevel 2, since they are disk devices, and disk devices can't be opened for writing at securelevel 2, and they require write permission for all ioctls. Bruce
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