Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:43:39 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Module magic Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990713204251.044f34f0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19990713211140.8502.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> References: <199907131631.MAA05152@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990712053316.9028A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <199907120945.TAA09669@cheops.anu.edu.au> <199907121736.NAA01917@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19990713010531.2897.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <199907131631.MAA05152@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Does XAccel for FreeBSD or BSDI still exist? I heard rumors that they'd dropped all of the BSDs and now only supported Linux. --Brett At 07:11 AM 7/14/99 +1000, Greg Black wrote: >Garrett Wollman writes: > > > > Are you saying that X does not work when securelevel >= 0 under > > > FreeBSD? > > > > That is correct. X requires direct access to I/O space, which is > > fundamentally incompatible with the notion of enhanced security. > >Can you explain how FreeBSD differs from BSDI in this? I've >been running various BSDI releases for years with XiG's XAccel >and securelevel set to 2 with no problems at all, and I had >hoped to do the same with FreeBSD (albeit with XFree86 rather >than XAccel). > >-- >Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org> or <gjb@computer.org> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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