[nycbug-talk] security advisory

Ray Lai nycbug
Thu Jan 19 15:58:35 EST 2006


On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:46:44PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Isaac Levy wrote:
> >On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> >>I'm logging into all my jail boxes and running "chflags -R noschg /", 
> >>since securelevels are now officially useless.
> >>
> >>Onion, shmonion!
> 
> I'm just having fun with Theo's "securelevels are useless" response.  They 
> may not be a perfect solution, but to just discard the whole idea (flaws 
> and all), you lose a layer of security.  Layers are good.

Securelevels are not file flags.

-Ray-




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