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Date:      Tue, 07 Sep 1999 06:49:29 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, KATO Takenori <kato@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel 
Message-ID:  <19990906204930.14319.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <199909061539.IAA74893@apollo.backplane.com>  of Mon, 06 Sep 1999 08:39:54 MST
References:  <199909060513.PAA12402@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <19990906142342F.kato@gneiss.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <xzp1zcco10z.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>  <199909061539.IAA74893@apollo.backplane.com> 

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Matthew Dillon writes:

>     Though, as a side note, it should be noted that if you have DDB
>     enabled then lowering the secure level is pretty easy to do.  If you
>     have access to the console, of course.

It should also be noted that it makes no sense to enable DDB on
systems that need to use elevated securelevels.

-- 
Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org>



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