On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>>>> "BE" == Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> BE> revision 1.9
> BE> date: 1997/06/25 07:31:47; author: joerg; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2
> BE> Don't ever allow lowering the securelevel at all. Allowing it does
> BE> nothing good except of opening a can of (potential or real) security
> BE> holes. People maintaining a machine with higher security requirements
> BE> need to be on the console anyway, so there's no point in not forcing
> BE> them to reboot before starting maintenance.
>
> Perhaps one of the secure level restrictions should be that you cannot
> attach to pid 1 via the debugger.
You can't.
Ever since Apr 1997 you couldn't attach gdb to init.
-Paul.
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