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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:28:25 +0100 (CET)
From:      roberto@redix.it
To:        "tilo KREMER" <spam.spam@hfbk-hamburg.de>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about securelevel
Message-ID:  <1275.192.168.0.77.1076509705.squirrel@mail.redix.it>
In-Reply-To: <402A3118.7070905@hfbk-hamburg.de>
References:  <1171.192.168.0.77.1076505166.squirrel@mail.redix.it> <402A3118.7070905@hfbk-hamburg.de>

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>
> you do not need to go single user to change it. just remove the
> securelevel lines from /etc/rc.conf and reboot.
>
> greetings,
> 	tilo
>

As said, the root filesystem is read-only and the command "mount -uw /"
should be in disabled when securelevel==3, in my ideal kernel.

Actually the command "mount -uw /" will succeded when the securelevel==3,
but supposing should be not so difficult to change the FreeBSD kernel,
this (securelevel+readonly filesystem) could address the weakness of
securelevel+non-read-only filesystem.

Regards
Roberto




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