From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 6 6:25:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pickup3-ld.pvd.loa.net (pickup.loa.com [199.171.167.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1974B37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 06:25:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brentb@loa.com) Received: (qmail 22254 invoked by uid 0); 6 Jun 2001 13:25:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pretorian) ([208.130.43.221]) (envelope-sender ) by pickup3-ld.pvd.loa.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for <>; 6 Jun 2001 13:25:44 -0000 Message-ID: <004701c0ee8c$21349460$3ab4a8c0@pretorian> From: "Brent Bailey" To: "Bill Moran" Cc: References: <005e01c0edf8$3d148080$3ab4a8c0@pretorian> <3B1D388C.8E8275F1@iowna.com> Subject: Re: kernel -security Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:25:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thanx :-) B ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Moran To: Brent Bailey Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 3:52 PM Subject: Re: kernel -security man init will provide details on what each securelevel does. Brent Bailey wrote: > > I recently install 4.3 FBSD an i noticed you have the option of picking > "type of security" i chose "extreme" and all it really does is add > kern_securelevel="2" > kern_securelevel_enable="YES" > > to the /etc/rc.conf file.....my question is what advantages as far as > security does this offer ?? I also installed IPFW w/ NAT and a few other > measures to keep unwanted THINGS at bay... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message