From owner-freebsd-security Thu Oct 5 3:56:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B6237B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 03:56:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-64-127.netcologne.de [213.168.64.127]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00426; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:56:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e95AuMx01299; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:56:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:56:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Nowlin , Gabriel Ambuehl , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: BSD chpass (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200010050540.XAA54442@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > 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? > : > : 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message