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From: Ariff Abdullah <skywizard@time.net.my>
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Subject: Re: Securelevel (was: Unable to startx)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 02:18:20 +0800
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On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, Ariff Abdullah wrote:
> On Fri, 02 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...
> > 
 
indeed, most of them think it's all about access/net security
instead of hardware/resource. We should prompt them
"Please read the init(8) manpage!"
 
 
 cheers
 -- 
 
 
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