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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 14:12:12 -0500
To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber),
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From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>
Subject: Re: securelevel?
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/etc/rc.conf

At 19:13 08-01-00 +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>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
>
>
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