From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 3 16:13:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mako1.telstra.net (mako1.telstra.net [203.50.0.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EEB37B405 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:13:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rctp.telstra.net (rsdhcp15.telstra.net [203.50.0.209]) by mako1.telstra.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fB40DWb64564; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:13:32 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from rchew@telstra.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011204112114.01b74b60@gomer.telstra.net> X-Sender: rchew@gomer.telstra.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 11:25:33 +1100 To: Jamie Pemantell From: Richard Chew Subject: Re: kern.securelevel not working like it's supposed to Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20011203142805.85401.qmail@web14002.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I've tried: >1. Issuing the sysctl -w command as root to change the >kern.securelevel variable value to 0. (Gives >"Operation not permitted" message.) kern.securelevel cannot be changed down when the system is running. >2. Commenting out lines in rc.conf that refer to >kern.securelevel. In theory, this should use the >default values from /etc/defaults/rc.conf (level -1). Do you have a file /etc/sysctl.conf? It might be in there. Otherwise, you can expressly set kern_securelevel_enable="YES" and kern_securelevel="-1" in /etc/rc.conf. Works for me. Hope this helps. Thanks. Cheers, Richard ----------- Richard Chew Tel: 02 6208 1913 (International: +61 2 6208 1913) Telstra Internet Network Development To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message