From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Aug 23 0:43:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB1A37B400; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from student.uci.agh.edu.pl (student.uci.agh.edu.pl [149.156.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13FA743E6A; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winfried@student.uci.agh.edu.pl) Received: by student.uci.agh.edu.pl (Postfix, from userid 25828) id 3F6DE64631; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:43:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by student.uci.agh.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 386C06F609; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:43:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:43:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Srzednicki To: Johan Karlsson Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, Subject: Re: kern/22142: securelevel does not affect mount In-Reply-To: <200208230144.g7N1itTB030484@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Johan Karlsson wrote: > Synopsis: securelevel does not affect mount > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-security > Responsible-Changed-By: johan > Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Aug 22 18:41:46 PDT 2002 > Responsible-Changed-Why: > Lets get -security's opinion about this. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22142 I'm afraid changin securelevel's behaviour would break some system schemes out there, which is rather unwanted thing for -STABLE. One thing we can do is to wait for MACs in -CURRENT. Maybe a better solution is to add another sysctl just form mount? Like kern.mount_disabled, which, when set to 1, cannot be reverted back. -- #- Winfried -------- wrzask@IRCNet -||- GG# 3838383 -||- JS500-RIPE -# #- w@dream.vg ---- w@303.krakow.pl -||--- http://violent.dream.vg ---# #- Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers. -# To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message