Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 05:00:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/20974: securelevel not reset when going to single user mode Message-ID: <200009051200.FAA01625@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/20974; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/20974: securelevel not reset when going to single user mode Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 13:50:42 +0200 On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 06:07:23 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > Some more updates are needed. As far as this PR is concerned, about the best improvement I can think of for the securelevel misunderstanding is included below. I don't think that the manual page is lacking right now, but this patch causes it to state the situation explicitly. Ciao, Sheldon. Index: init.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/init/init.8,v retrieving revision 1.22 diff -u -d -r1.22 init.8 --- init.8 2000/03/01 11:27:06 1.22 +++ init.8 2000/09/05 11:48:03 @@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ .Pp The kernel runs with four different levels of security. Any super-user process can raise the security level, but no process +(including +.Nm Ns ) can lower it. The security levels are: .Bl -tag -width flag To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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