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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 1996 02:40:06 -0600
From:      peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is "immutable" supposed to be a good idea?
Message-ID:  <199603140840.CAA03991@bonkers.taronga.com>
References:  <199602180608.RAA29273@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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Bruce Evans  <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
>>If secure mode is something we turn on during the boot process,

>You'd be really unhappy if we turned on secure mode :-).

Really? How unhappy?

I was planning on turning on secure mode on my new firewall before I connect
it to the Internet for real.

>I disagree.  The problem is that the immutable flags are set by default
>on systems that will never run in secure mode.

Yes. that's a problem. I've run into that on all my installs so far. Also,
the docs are kinda misleading about all this stuff.



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