Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 23:09:06 -0700 (PDT) From: David S Strait <basilisk@umail.ucsb.edu> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Kern Secure Level Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110052303250.18017-100000@bergman.umail.ucsb.edu>
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There is a little discussion about kern secure level in the 'man init' page, but its somewhat brief. On Kern level 1, I couldn't get X-windows to work so I wanted to lower it. (As it turned out later, this was the solution, and X-win worked.) I'm running FreeBSD 4.4 REL and basically: when kern_securelevel="0" in rc.conf, it just hops up to 1??????? But if you leave it: kern_securelevel="-1" or kern_securelevel="1", then it will go to -1, 1 respectively. Why on 0 does the level get bounced to 1? Is there a *serious* security issue with kern levels -1 and 0? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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