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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2001 04:11:15 +0100 (BST)
From:      George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org>
To:        alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Operation not permitted
Message-ID:  <20010801041041.C92484-100000@sobek.lan>
In-Reply-To: <001301c11a37$b654d1a0$0100a8c0@alexus>

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, alexus wrote:

> su-2.05# sysctl -w kern.securelevel=-1
> kern.securelevel: 1
> sysctl: kern.securelevel: Operation not permitted
> su-2.05# id
> uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty),
> 5(operator), 20(staff), 31(guest)
> su-2.05#

init(8):
	The kernel runs with four different levels of security.  Any
	super-user process can raise the security level, but no process
	can lower it.

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|    George Reid    |  FreeBSD Committer  |
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