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Date:      Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:50:08 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Frank Tobin <ftobin@bigfoot.com>
To:        Jason Young <doogie@anet-stl.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-security Mailing List <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: file flags during low securelevels
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906250049420.63311-100000@srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990625004700.25811E-100000@earth.anet-stl.com>

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Jason Young, at 00:48 on Fri, 25 Jun 1999, wrote:

> The immutable and other flags protect against accidental as well as
> malicious damage. If they don't do their job in low securelevels, then
> they don't do their job in out-of-the-box FreeBSD installations and any
> other installation where the admin has not or does not know to raise the
> securelevel.

Okay, so how about a sysctl knob for it?

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