Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:53:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu> To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Module magic Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907131251260.93384-100000@srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199907131631.MAA05152@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman, at 12:31 on Tue, 13 Jul 1999, wrote: > > 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. However, it seems, the XFree86 wants to open kmem or mem only on startup; one can start xdm and have it running fine with a functional securelevel. The only problem arises if one needs to do a server reset with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. -- Frank Tobin "To learn what is good and what is to be www.neverending.org/~ftobin valued, those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus FreeBSD: The Power To Serve PGPenvelope = GPG and PGP5 + Pine PGP: 4F86 3BBB A816 6F0A 340F www.neverending.org/~ftobin/resources.html 6003 56FF D10A 260C 4FA3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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