Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:24:52 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Frank Tobin <ftobin@bigfoot.com>, Kirill Nosov <slash@leontief.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securelevel descr Message-ID: <19990619042453.7244.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <xzpu2s5zujv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> of 18 Jun 1999 12:12:36 %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906180326180.55914-100000@srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu> <xzpu2s5zujv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> > Hrm, that is a excellent idea could be added as an extra securelevel, such > > as -2. > > -2? Why -2? Securelevels are numbered upwards from 0, in increasing > order of paranoia. Ah, no, they're not. The init(8) man page is quite clear that that are numbered upwards from -1. For the proposed purpose, the -2 value makes some kind of sense. -- Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org> or <gjb@computer.org> Fight censorship in Australia: <http://www.efa.org.au>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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