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>Number:         23350
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       securelevel poorly documented about module loading
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 07 02:00:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gordon Tetlow
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Blue Mountain
>Environment:

	

>Description:

While running in securelevel 2, I tried to load a kernel screensaver module
and was met with an operation not permitted. It took me a minute but I'm
assuming that with securelevel 1 disallowing writing to /dev/kmem I cannot
load modules. I was thinking it might be nice to make that more obvious in
the init(8) manpage.

>How-To-Repeat:

sysctl -w kern.securelevel=1
kldload green_saver

>Fix:

Document the fact that securelevel >= 1 disallows module loading more
explicitly.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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