From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jun 18 23:11: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3E4814CA9 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 23:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au) Received: (qmail 7245 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Jun 1999 14:24:53 +1000 Message-ID: <19990619042453.7244.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:24:52 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Frank Tobin , Kirill Nosov , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securelevel descr References: In-reply-to: of 18 Jun 1999 12:12:36 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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 -- or Fight censorship in Australia: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message