From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 24 22:50:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu (srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu [130.126.76.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5429514C07 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:50:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ftobin@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 63584 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Jun 1999 05:50:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jun 1999 05:50:08 -0000 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:50:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Tobin X-Sender: ftobin@srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu To: Jason Young Cc: FreeBSD-security Mailing List Subject: Re: file flags during low securelevels In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? -- Frank Tobin "To learn what is good and what is to be http://www.bigfoot.com/~ftobin valued, those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus FreeBSD: The Power To Serve PGPenvelope = GPG and PGP5 + Pine PGP: 4F86 3BBB A816 6F0A 340F http://www.bigfoot.com/~ftobin/resources.html 6003 56FF D10A 260C 4FA3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message