From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 9:58:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D5C37B503 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:58:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-662.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.190]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id LAA31381; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:57:55 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: Christopher Farley , Lowell Gilbert Subject: Re: Securelevel (was: Unable to startx) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:54:46 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01020109425700.22409@FreeBSD.mine.nu> <44k87a4dbi.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <20010201112021.A9241@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <20010201112021.A9241@northernbrewer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01020111564705.01820@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Christopher Farley wrote: > 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 I think secure levels are the same as any other knobs. If you don't know what they do, don't mess with em! The secure level setup in sysinstall is a new feature of 4.2. I have heard some whisperings here and there that they are not going away in 5.0, but there are other mechanisms in the works. Just a rumor. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message