Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:11:39 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Module magic Message-ID: <19990713211140.8502.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199907131631.MAA05152@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> of Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:31:30 -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990712053316.9028A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <199907120945.TAA09669@cheops.anu.edu.au> <199907121736.NAA01917@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19990713010531.2897.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <199907131631.MAA05152@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman writes: > > Are you saying that X does not work when securelevel >= 0 under > > FreeBSD? > > That is correct. X requires direct access to I/O space, which is > fundamentally incompatible with the notion of enhanced security. Can you explain how FreeBSD differs from BSDI in this? I've been running various BSDI releases for years with XiG's XAccel and securelevel set to 2 with no problems at all, and I had hoped to do the same with FreeBSD (albeit with XFree86 rather than XAccel). -- Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org> or <gjb@computer.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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