[nycbug-talk] kernels

[Pete Wright]

Roland C. Dowdeswell wrote:

>On 1086300362 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
>Pete Wright wrote:
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>>how does setting the securelevel in NetBSD work?  i'm not very familiar 
>>with it :(  Is this a boot time option, or kernel compiletime option?  
>>I'd assume setting security levels ala sysctl would not be the best 
>>thing.  If someone get's root, then can alter sysctl parms. etc....
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>It's a raiseonly sysctl.  So, you don't get to lower it.
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>The levels are roughly described in NetBSD's init(8) man page.
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>The concept comes from 4.4BSD, IIRC, so it should also be present
>in {Free,Open}BSD.
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>    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/
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thanks!

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