Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:47:50 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is the best secure_level setting? Message-ID: <006601c17728$944bb030$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15362.23055.336143.894625@guru.mired.org>
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Mike writes: > Once you turn it up to 1, you can't install a > new kernel or load kernel modules. Yes, I noticed the schg flag on /kernel. But I can modify rc.conf to set the level lower and then reboot to make kernel modifications, right? > Things that can be reached from the internet > are set to 3. System things on them don't > change very often, so this isn't much of an > inconvenience. Well, my system can be reached via SMTP, but that's it for the time being. However, since I am trying to get used to FreeBSD as it would run in a production environment, I wanted to run with the highest possible security level just to become familiar with whatever restrictions this imposes. I've been running with the level set to 3 for a while now and I haven't noticed any major awkwardness in running the system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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