From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 8 00:58:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA19553 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA19483 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:58:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA10761; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:57:02 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA22389; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:56:57 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA16954; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:09:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608080709.JAA16954@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Q:Meanings of kern.securelevel values To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:09:40 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608080000.RAA10273@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from Jason Thorpe at "Aug 7, 96 05:00:32 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jason Thorpe wrote: > > option INSECURE > > FWIW, NetBSD has this option. What other problems did you encounter in raising the securelevel, except the known problem with the video frame buffer vs. Xserver access through /dev/mem? Should one expect many problems, or only a few minor ones? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)