Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 11:25:33 +1100 From: Richard Chew <rchew@telstra.net> To: Jamie Pemantell <techbot2@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern.securelevel not working like it's supposed to Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011204112114.01b74b60@gomer.telstra.net> In-Reply-To: <20011203142805.85401.qmail@web14002.mail.yahoo.com>
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>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.) kern.securelevel cannot be changed down when the system is running. >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). Do you have a file /etc/sysctl.conf? It might be in there. Otherwise, you can expressly set kern_securelevel_enable="YES" and kern_securelevel="-1" in /etc/rc.conf. Works for me. Hope this helps. Thanks. Cheers, Richard ----------- Richard Chew Tel: 02 6208 1913 (International: +61 2 6208 1913) Telstra Internet Network Development To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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