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Date:      Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:18:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
To:        joerg@FreeBSD.ORG (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c
Message-ID:  <199706250918.LAA03564@ocean.campus.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: <199706250731.AAA22382@freefall.freebsd.org> from Joerg Wunsch at "Jun 25, 97 00:31:49 am"

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According to Joerg Wunsch:
> joerg       1997/06/25 00:31:49 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             kern_mib.c 
>   Log:
>   Don't ever allow lowering the securelevel at all.  Allowing it does
>   nothing good except of opening a can of (potential or real) security
>   holes.  People maintaining a machine with higher security requirements
>   need to be on the console anyway, so there's no point in not forcing
>   them to reboot before starting maintenance.

Being a security fix, will it be tagged into RELENG_2_2 also?

  /Mikael



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