From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 22:30:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D84137B41F for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:30:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.140.30.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.140.30] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16KD0h-0001Qe-00; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:30:23 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBT6UDG95536; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:30:12 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: measl@mfn.org Cc: Simon Siemonsma , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disabling KLDs Message-ID: <20011228223012.E93411@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <200112282153.WAA12249@smtp.hccnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from measl@mfn.org on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:09:08PM -0600 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:09:08PM -0600, measl@mfn.org wrote: > > We use securelevels on all of our FBSD boxes already. A look at the man > pages for KLD does not indicate to me that KLDs are disabled by > securelevels. If I am misunderstanding what they are saying, I would > certainly appreciate a pointer in the right direction :-) $ man securelevel ... 1 Secure mode - the system immutable and system append-only flags may not be turned off; disks for mounted filesystems, /dev/mem, and /dev/kmem may not be opened for writing; kernel modules (see kld(4)) may not be loaded or unloaded. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message