Date: 19 Jun 1999 11:31:15 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Frank Tobin <ftobin@bigfoot.com>, Kirill Nosov <slash@leontief.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securelevel descr Message-ID: <xzpu2s41qqk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Greg Black's message of "Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:24:52 %2B1000" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906180326180.55914-100000@srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu> <xzpu2s5zujv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990619042453.7244.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> writes: > > > Hrm, that is a excellent idea could be added as an extra securelevel, such > > > as -2. > > -2? Why -2? Securelevels are numbered upwards from 0, in increasing > > order of paranoia. > Ah, no, they're not. The init(8) man page is quite clear that > that are numbered upwards from -1. For the proposed purpose, > the -2 value makes some kind of sense. -1 is just a magic value that tells init not to raise the securelevel beyond 0. It's not a real securelevel, and is functionally indistinguishable from securelevel 0. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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