From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 17:54:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net [129.250.36.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992F237B6AC for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 17:54:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from [129.250.38.64] (helo=dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #7) id 13q49q-0001YU-00; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 01:54:42 +0000 Received: from [204.1.90.43] (helo=power) by dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net with smtp id 13q49q-0006u0-00; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 01:54:42 +0000 From: "Tony Johnson" To: "Mh" , Subject: RE: kern.securelevel Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:54:42 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200010300139.CAA17727@post.webmailer.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Boot into single user. vi rc.conf. turn securelevel to 0. reboot. That should fix it. Secure level breaks X. Also if you do chflags -schg, you will not be able to change those until the secure level is set to 0. On a working production system this is good! Increased security is good. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mh Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 6:39 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: kern.securelevel hello, i raised my kern.securelevel to 2. soon i realized, that this was a wrong decission for what im doing, such as using bpf. ive read that there is no other way to switch it down, than reinstalling freebsd. is this true? because i really want to avoid that step. thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message