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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