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Date:      Wed, 2 Oct 1996 16:11:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
To:        Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Immutable flags (was: Re: WARNING: botched ld.so commit! :-()
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.93.961002161037.25901F-100000@pauling.salk.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.93.961003062342.10892A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>

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On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Michael Hancock wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> > Ummm, INITIAL_IMMUTABLE_LEVEL?  This doesn't mean anything to me.
> 
> It was just a suggestion for a kernel config opt.
> 
> BSDI and NetBSD uses INSECURE, but this convention would surprise many
> people.  I would like to have an option, I don't really care what it is
> called.
> 
> /kernel is marked immutable.  I'd like to be able to configure systems
> such that you can't change the flags unless you are in single user mode
> even if you're root.
> 

I think this is an excellent idea!

Tom





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