Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:25:42 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: mark@grondar.za, tlambert@primenet.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, max@wide.ad.jp Subject: Re: unremovable schg flag? Message-ID: <199809100925.TAA09021@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > I noticed that this file has schg flag set, and I could not do >> > chflags noschg even as root. > >[ ... ] > >> Have you set your securelevel to something other than -1? If so, this is >> what schg is all about. > >Aparently not: > >> > After struggling for some time, I went into the single user mode >> > and clri'd that file. This shows that securelevel 1 isn't actually secure. (Starting from the uninitialized shell variable kern_securelevel, /etc/rc sets the kernel securelevel to 0. init(8) knows too much about securelevels and bumps this to 1. Level 1 is a little bit insecure.) Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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