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Date:      Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:25:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Matthew George <mdg@secureworks.net>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Smux?= <smux@terra.com.br>
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?freebsd-stable?= <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: problems in chflags
Message-ID:  <20031016162224.I33518@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <HMV6AN$B70421CFF733D80CA7DA4B0016172DA0@terra.com.br>
References:  <HMV6AN$B70421CFF733D80CA7DA4B0016172DA0@terra.com.br>

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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Smux wrote:

> Hi all!
> I'm getting errors on my server, and would like o try fix this, by that way:
> Verifing errors on my server, I found that someone root called command "chflags sappnd /etc/master.passwd" returning that error:
>
> [root@centerbr /etc]$ chflags nosappnd master.passwd
> chflags: master.passwd: Operation not permitted
>
> Someone can help me how do like to try fix this this problem?
> Thanks.
>
>
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check the sysctl kern.securelevel

if it is >= 1, the system append flag (sappnd) may not be turned off (see
init(8)).

This can be changed by lowering the securelevel setting in rc.conf and
rebooting the system.

-- 
Matthew George
SecureWorks Technical Operations



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