Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 02:31:19 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: kern_mib.c:int securelevel = -1; Message-ID: <199608101631.CAA03169@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Please use INSECURE to be consistent with BSD/OS and NetBSD. I'm for >> names in code that are black and white. The man pages can describe the >> gray areas in the bugs or caveats section. >...and make it a default option. Otherwise, people with typical >workstations running Xservers will jump at us. The comment in LINT >and GENERIC _must_ mention this, or the amount of support replies we >have to send out will increase drastically. Have you tried it? :-) X works fine even at securelevel 2. However, this is a bug. Certain opens and ioctls can be used to write to mounted disks, so they should not work at securelevel >= 1. Bruce
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