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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:25:56 -0500
From:      Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
To:        Anthony Schneider <aschneid@mail.slc.edu>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Some Followup on that ypchfn mess of mine 
Message-ID:  <200107270025.TAA13221@chrome.jdl.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:21:23 EDT." <20010726192123.A37564@mail.slc.edu> 

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So, like Anthony Schneider was saying to me just the other day:
> Type ls -lo /path/to/ypchfn, and look for flags set on it
> (i.e. schg, uchg).  If any of these are set, you will
> need to run
> 	chflags noschg ypchfn
> (or switch noschg with whatever flag is set).
> Not sure what else it might be.
> -Anthony.
> 

So cleverly, I did this and it didn't work.
Then I got to thinking...

    # sysctl kern.securelevel
    kern.securelevel: 1

Uh oh.  Hack rc.conf, back down to -1...

    # chflags noschg ypchfn

And finally.

    # chmod -x ypchfn

Woo hoo!

OK, so I feel a bit better now... :-)

Thanks!
jdl

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