Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:21:48 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Jamie Pemantell <techbot2@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.securelevel not working like it's supposed to Message-ID: <15371.57052.159510.178034@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15314400@toto.iv>
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Jamie Pemantell <techbot2@yahoo.com> types: > I've tried: > 1. Issuing the sysctl -w command as root to change the > kern.securelevel variable value to 0. (Gives > "Operation not permitted" message.) Won't work, as you've found out. > 2. Commenting out lines in rc.conf that refer to > kern.securelevel. In theory, this should use the > default values from /etc/defaults/rc.conf (level -1). This should work after you reboot the system. > 3. Commenting out the last lines of /etc/rc that refer > to changing securelevel. This should also work, but is bad practice. > According to material on the web, one or all of these > should stop the securelevel from being changed when > the system goes into multiuser mode. However, INIT > still changes the secure level from 0 to 1 every time > the boot completes. Something is clearly wrong, as the system starts at -1, not 0. You probably have to trace through the rc script - and any other scripts it runs - to find what's changing things, and then fix that. > Am I missing something? I thought that the config info > for INIT was stored in rc.conf, but that doesn't seem > to be the case. Any help would be appreciated, and I'd > be grateful if you'd copy me on the reply. That's SOP on this list. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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