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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-erlangen.de!uniol!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: uk1o@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Felix Schroeter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is securitylevel implemented in FreeBSD? Date: 7 Aug 1996 19:09:44 +0200 Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4uaiko$jl7@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <4tm7uk$1me@overload.lbl.gov> <4u0b28$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: uk1o Hello! In article <4u0b28$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) wrote: >[...] >FreeBSD has not been tested with securelevels other than 0. One thing >i know will break is running the X server, since accessing the frame >buffer through /dev/mem is forbidden then. (The NetBSD folks use a >special driver as a backdoor to allow this.) Expect other things to >break as well. I don't think so. I have installed a firewall with FreeBSD as operating system (no X, of course) and patched the kernel to securelevel = 0 there (so that init raises it to 1 on multiuser bootup). There have been no problems from that till now. Regards, Felix.