From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 12:54:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aya.yerphi.am (aya.YerPhI.AM [212.42.192.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628F015220 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:53:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sevinian@aya.yerphi.am) Received: from localhost (sevinian@localhost) by aya.yerphi.am (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA25551 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:55:07 +0400 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:55:07 +0400 (AMT) From: Eugene Sevinian Reply-To: Eugene Sevinian To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help!; was "kernel security level; Books" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I got no answer till now and it seems that I failed to exlpain in previous posting that root is not allowed to modify any files in /usr/local/etc. As this is my first expierience with freebsd, I would like to know is there any other posibility to protect some files except setting kernel's security level !=-1 ? TIA, Eugene. On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > Hi ppl, > Recently I started to use freebsd (3.01) at work , and the first > thing which I should learn is how to edit some config files in > /usr/local/etc directory. It was explained in init's man that there are 4 > levels of security and if it is set to -1 than root can do everything > according to given file permissions. sysctl tells that this value set to > -1, so what the matter? At the same time I was able to create new file in > /usr/local. What I am doing wrong? > > Q2. Can you recommend some "must have" books about FreeBSD? Are there > available in russian as well? > > Eugene Sevinian ---------------------------- CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message