Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 14:12:12 -0500 From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securelevel? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000107141157.00999100@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <857uoh$8c4$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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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 > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today's errors, in contrast: Windows - "Invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll at 0032:A16F2935" UNIX - "segmentation fault - core dumped" Humanous Beingsus - "OOPS, I've fallen and I can't get up" ------------------------------- Jim Conner NOTJames jconner@enterit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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