From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 9 13:25:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE9737B6A4; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA30509; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:25:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:25:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: John Baldwin Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making the snoop device loadable. In-Reply-To: <200007092024.NAA81999@john.baldwin.cx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 , 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 -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message