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Date:      Mon, 06 Apr 2015 11:57:36 +0100
From:      Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
To:        Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: set securelevel without a reboot
Message-ID:  <552266A0.6050301@qeng-ho.org>
In-Reply-To: <55225E09.8080505@gmail.com>
References:  <55225E09.8080505@gmail.com>

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On 06/04/2015 11:20, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> Is there a way to enable kern_securelevel beside putting the statements
> in rc.conf and rebooting the system?

man 7 security

"The security level can be set with a sysctl(8) on the kern.securelevel 
variable."

That's all that the rc script does. Of course, if you want to *reduce* 
the secure level to 0 or -1 you will need a reboot.

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