Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:56:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>, Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: BSD chpass (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010051252430.278-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <200010050540.XAA54442@harmony.village.org>
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010050116090.17757-100000@jason.argos.org> 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?
> :
> : Yes? No? Stupid idea?
>
> Usually they are called "Joysticks" :-) One could hack the joy driver
> to allow this.
The joystick definately has the geek factor going for it, but I just
use DDB:
bash-2.04$ Debugger("manual escape to debugger")
Stopped at Debugger+0x34: movb $0,in_Debugger.396
db> w securelevel 0xffffffff
securelevel 0x2 = 0xffffffff
db> c
Who needs sysctl(8)? :-)
-Paul.
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