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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10101052129290.4678-100000@wintermute.sekt7> from Evan S at "Jan 5, 1 09:30:22 pm"
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In some mail from Evan S, sie said:
> I know this may seem crazy. But, I _want_ to be able to lower the secure
> level. What part of the soruce would I need to edit in order to fix this?

This would break the semantics of what it's meant to provide in terms of
protection.

> I have some special circumstances.. I run a public root-access machine.

If that's saying what I think it is...

hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Just set securelevel to -1 when you boot - it won't make any difference
anyway :-)

Darren


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