From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 6:24:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from looney.co.za (bubbles.looney.co.za [196.4.160.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F42437B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:24:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by looney.co.za (Postfix, from userid 1332) id BCF6D5804; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:24:27 +0200 (SAST) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:24:27 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: Ragnar Beer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lower kern.securelevel Message-ID: <20010213162427.A13920@looney.co.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rbeer@uni-goettingen.de on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:11:41PM +0100 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.18 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey there, The default securelevel in single user mode is -1. You shouldn't need to change it. If you want to change it for when the machine boots up, check out /etc/rc.conf Cheers, Marc On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:11:41PM +0100, Ragnar Beer wrote: > Howdy! I thought that after going into single-user-mode with > 'shutdown now' I'd be able to lower the securelevel using 'sysctl -w > kern.securelevel=1' but it's not allowed. What do I need to do to > lower securelevel for a while? > > Ragnar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message