Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:43:52 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> Cc: Mark <mlivingstone@ottawa.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to change SECURELEVEL back? Message-ID: <20010716224352.F299@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <01071619314900.06671@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>; from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 07:31:49PM -0800 References: <20010716222645.A19000@tmd.df.ru> <01071619314900.06671@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 07:31:49PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Monday 16 July 2001 06:26 pm, Mark wrote: > > re, > > > > how do go about changing securelevel from 2 back to 0 or -1? :) i've > > changed it using "sysctl" but appears i can't change it back.. > > > > reply to e-mail please. > > > > thank you in advance! > > > > mark > > Put the following in /etc/rc.conf and reboot: > > kern_securelevel_enable="YES" # kernel security level (see init(8)), > kern_securelevel="-1" # range: -1..3 ; `-1' is the most insecure Hopefully, if you are running at elevated securelevel, /etc/rc.conf has the schg-flag set and cannot be modified. Not much point in raising the securelevel if it is not. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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