From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 8 10:39:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5EA14C8E for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 10:39:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id TAA01943 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 19:39:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA08594 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 19:13:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: securelevel? Date: 8 Jan 2000 19:13:37 +0100 Message-ID: <857uoh$8c4$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm confused about securelevel handling in FreeBSD. The init(8) man page says: | Any super-user process can raise the security level, but no | process can lower it. Which means that if you go from single-user mode in securelevel 0 to multi-user in level 1 and return to single-user you are still in level 1, right? (On OpenBSD, init can lower the secure level. I assume it does so for the multi-user to single-user transition.) | If the security level is initially -1, then init leaves it unchanged. | Otherwise, init arranges to run the system in level 0 mode while | single-user and in level 1 mode while multi-user. [...] "Otherwise"? Apparently -1 is the default securelevel. But how can I set it to something else, even before init is run? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message