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Date:      Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:56:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>, Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: BSD chpass (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010051252430.278-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de>
In-Reply-To: <200010050540.XAA54442@harmony.village.org>

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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010050116090.17757-100000@jason.argos.org> Mike Nowlin writes:
> : How about some hardware flag (such as a bit on the game port connected to
> : a one-shot 555 timer or something) that, when set, will allow you to lower
> : the secure level w/o rebooting?
> : 
> : Yes?  No?  Stupid idea?
> 
> Usually they are called "Joysticks" :-)  One could hack the joy driver
> to allow this.

The joystick definately has the geek factor going for it, but I just
use DDB:

bash-2.04$ Debugger("manual escape to debugger")
Stopped at      Debugger+0x34:  movb    $0,in_Debugger.396
db> w securelevel 0xffffffff
securelevel                  0x2        =       0xffffffff
db> c

Who needs sysctl(8)?  :-)

-Paul.



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