From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 25 18:43:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DAAA37B71B for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:43:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:41:34 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2Q2hcM11363; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:43:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:43:37 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Jim Mahood Cc: Dima Dorfman , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't unlink kernel Message-ID: <20010325184337.F5425@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20010326015033.2AF243E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jim@mahood.com on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 08:54:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 08:54:29PM -0500, Jim Mahood wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Dima Dorfman wrote: > + > +Go to the URL above and click on the link, then read the explanation > +of securelevel. You can't unset it without rebooting. If you can, > +it's a bug. > + > > I have, and I understand that I can't unset it -- that would defeat its > purpose. I'm supposed to be able to boot into single-user mode, and it's > supposed to not be set, but I'm not seeing that behavior. What exactly is not working? Are you saying you are dropping back to single-user mode from multi-user? That does not work with FreeBSD. init(8) says, Since the level can not be reduced, it will be at least 1 for subsequent operation, even on return to single-user. Note however, this behavior does vary between *BSDs. By default, when you bring OpenBSD to single-user from multi-user, the securelevel drops. > I was able to > change the values set in /etc/rc.conf, and reboot, but would prefer to > know why the single-user method wouldn't work for me. I think I see what > I have to do -- boot -s at the boot prompt, huh? Right. How else were you trying to boot to single-user mode? Were you dropping from multi-user? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message