From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 6 13:58: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from maxim.gba.oz.au (gba.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7ABBC14DF6 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:57:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au) Received: (qmail 8646 invoked from network); 7 Sep 1999 06:49:31 +1000 Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (192.168.1.11) by maxim.gba.oz.au with SMTP; 7 Sep 1999 06:49:31 +1000 Received: (qmail 14320 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Sep 1999 06:49:30 +1000 Message-ID: <19990906204930.14319.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 06:49:29 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , KATO Takenori , bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel References: <199909060513.PAA12402@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <19990906142342F.kato@gneiss.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <199909061539.IAA74893@apollo.backplane.com> In-reply-to: <199909061539.IAA74893@apollo.backplane.com> of Mon, 06 Sep 1999 08:39:54 MST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon writes: > Though, as a side note, it should be noted that if you have DDB > enabled then lowering the secure level is pretty easy to do. If you > have access to the console, of course. It should also be noted that it makes no sense to enable DDB on systems that need to use elevated securelevels. -- Greg Black -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message