Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 18:49:17 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: secure level diffs to kern_mib.c, LINT Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.93.961007184307.14359A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <199610061132.VAA25153@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > Actually, securelevel 1 is normally so insecure that it shouldn't be used. > It essentially only provides write protection of /dev/mem and /dev/kmem. Isn't write protection of /dev/mem /dev/kmem a good enough reason for use? > The write protection on mounted disks is worthless becauses there are > lots of aliases. Even plain BSD has a whole disk partition, and FreeBSD So facilitate improvements, don't hinder it. > has lots of slices and SCSI control devices. Perhaps this can be worked > around by deleting the aliases. Like this. Regards, Mike Hancock
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