From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 9:20:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (unknown [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF3B37B6A6 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:20:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1009) id BD5F4591; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:20:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:20:22 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Securelevel (was: Unable to startx) Message-ID: <20010201112021.A9241@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <01020109425700.22409@FreeBSD.mine.nu> <5.0.2.1.0.20010131235332.02869e30@mail.enterit.com> <44k87a4dbi.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <44k87a4dbi.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>; from lowell@world.std.com on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:45:21AM -0500 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lowell Gilbert (lowell@world.std.com) wrote: > I'm sorry you didn't get a response on this; it's come up a number of > times lately, and usually gets a quick answer. If that trend > continues (where *are* people getting the idea of raising securelevel > without a hint of what it does?), I'll get around to entering it in > the FAQ. I think people are getting the idea from the installation program. I don't recall being prompted to set my securelevel in previous FreeBSD installations, but last time I installed (4.2) on a fresh system there was a prompt about setting securelevels. I think some people see the securelevel menu and think "gee, I don't want to have an *insecure* machine." Is it necessary to prompt for securelevel during installation? I bet it causes more problems than it solves... -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message