From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 13: 2:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-105.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6760537B41C for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:02:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0C93666BE2; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:02:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:02:17 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: What is the best secure_level setting? Message-ID: <20011126130217.B17576@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <00c201c17681$91287110$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00c201c17681$91287110$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:52:19PM +0100 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 --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:52:19PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I am looking at secure_level in FreeBSD and wondering what setting is > appropriate. The default seems to be the lowest possible setting of -1, but I > don't see any obvious reason why I can't run at +1. What levels do you all run > your systems at normally? -1. It all depends on your security model and how much inconvenience you're willing to take. My personal belief is that securelevel isn't a truly useful security feature for most people since it's too difficult and painful to make it actually achieve the objectives they probably wanted from it (see the -security archives for discussion). Kris --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Aq3ZWry0BWjoQKURAmkPAKCBvoiMHxCWUXF4hi161kpKJf+NBgCdFFgN f1klw2dxZj7DRtVp33/TWx4= =yND3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message