Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 10:44:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> To: Invis <invis@visi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Securelevels Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.970921104240.12083A-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970920105841.22820@visi.com>
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On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Invis wrote: > After ready bugtraq and the FreeBSD mailing lists, one of the > things that seems to pop up every now and then are Securelevels, and I > was wondering if someone could please tell me how they are defined, what > each level does and the like. Any explanations will be appreciated! "man 8 init" should describe most of what you are looking for. I believe from reading the kernel sources that there is an undocumented level 3 that precludes any changes to the ipfw IP packet filter list. Guy Helmer Guy Helmer, Computer Science Graduate Student - ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu Iowa State University http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer Research Assistant, Scalable Computing Laboratory, Ames Laboratory
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