From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 9 11:57: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791BE37B56E for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 11:56:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29862 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 14:57:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 14:57:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making the snoop device loadable. In-Reply-To: <17526.963166640@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >In message , Adam >writes: >>On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >>> >>>>If this change goes in, what do you do if you wish not to have snooping >>>>capable through the snp device and do not wish to lock unneccessary parts >>>>of the system down with securelevel? >>> >>>You do the same as before: Hold on tight to your root password. >> >>I dont like kernel changes that make the kernel do less babysitting and me >>more. Tough, I guess. > >You have always needed to babysit your root password. Ok, I give in to the argument. I would just like to make a wish. On Jan 24 1999 peter took the NO_LKM option out of LINT. I assume the support for it in other files was removed around that time also. Could someone implement a NO_KLD option so you dont need to use securelevel > 0 so people have an obvious option and dont have to know the kernel well enough to hack syscalls.master? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message