From owner-freebsd-security Wed Oct 4 22:41:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E71337B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 22:41:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e955emM19869; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:40:49 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id XAA54442; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:40:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010050540.XAA54442@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Nowlin Subject: Re: Re[2]: BSD chpass (fwd) Cc: Gabriel Ambuehl , security@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Oct 2000 01:26:59 EDT." References: Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 23:40:48 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message Mike Nowlin writes: : How about some hardware flag (such as a bit on the game port connected to : a one-shot 555 timer or something) that, when set, will allow you to lower : the secure level w/o rebooting? Hit the button, the bit goes low, and you : have 15 seconds to lower the securelevel before the bit goes high again : and blocks the change (default action). Could also be wired to the : (rather pointless) turbo switch that is still being put on a lot of : cases... : : Yes? No? Stupid idea? Usually they are called "Joysticks" :-) One could hack the joy driver to allow this. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message