Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 11:17:46 GMT From: Neil Darlow <neil@darlow.co.uk> To: Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Disabling kern.securelevel? Message-ID: <20010606.11174600@ideal.darlow.co.uk>
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Hi, I understand the benefits of running with kern.securelevel > 0 but I am finding that it gets in the way when applying patches. Is there any way, other than reboot, to change kern.securelevel back to 0? I've been doing some security updates recently and I've had to do the following: 1) Disable securelevel in /etc/rc.conf 2) Reboot 3) Install patches (for files with schg set) 4) Enable securelevel in /etc/rc.conf 5) Reboot Two reboots seems excessive. I can understand the need to do one if libc or the kernel has been updated. Is there another way? Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow <neil@darlow.co.uk> Key fingerprint =3D 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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