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Date:      Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:25:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: making the snoop device loadable.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007091624380.407-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
In-Reply-To: <200007092024.NAA81999@john.baldwin.cx>

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On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote:

>
>On 09-Jul-00 Adam wrote:
>> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>>>In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007091411480.407-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>, Adam 
>>>writes:
>>>>On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>If this change goes in, what do you do if you wish not to have snooping
>>>>>>capable through the snp device and do not wish to lock unneccessary parts
>>>>>>of the system down with securelevel?
>>>>>
>>>>>You do the same as before:  Hold on tight to your root password.
>>>>
>>>>I dont like kernel changes that make the kernel do less babysitting and me
>>>>more.  Tough, I guess.  
>>>
>>>You have always needed to babysit your root password.
>> 
>> Ok, I give in to the argument.  I would just like to make a wish.  On Jan
>> 24 1999 peter took the NO_LKM option out of LINT.  I assume the support
>> for it in other files was removed around that time also.  Could someone
>> implement a NO_KLD option so you dont need to use securelevel > 0 so
>> people have an obvious option and dont have to know the kernel well enough
>> to hack syscalls.master?
>
>Patches accepted. :)  Seriously, if you come up with a patchset
>I'll look at it and see about getting it in the tree.
>
>John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/

Thanks for the offer, but I've already mentioned in an earlier email I
couldnt code hello world without documentation if my life depended on
it.  If it helps, I think you can use X in netbsd in higher securelevels.  



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