Date: 8 Jan 2000 19:13:37 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: securelevel? Message-ID: <857uoh$8c4$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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I'm confused about securelevel handling in FreeBSD. The init(8) man page says: | Any super-user process can raise the security level, but no | process can lower it. Which means that if you go from single-user mode in securelevel 0 to multi-user in level 1 and return to single-user you are still in level 1, right? (On OpenBSD, init can lower the secure level. I assume it does so for the multi-user to single-user transition.) | If the security level is initially -1, then init leaves it unchanged. | Otherwise, init arranges to run the system in level 0 mode while | single-user and in level 1 mode while multi-user. [...] "Otherwise"? Apparently -1 is the default securelevel. But how can I set it to something else, even before init is run? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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