Re: securelevels

2008-08-18 Thread Brent Clark
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi Brent, Hey Odhiambo Long time no hear! Hope you are good. All good. Why are you asking about this when it is so clearly documented? I know its documented. Having used debian for x amount of years, think its time to add *BSD to my repertoire and too see

securelevels

2008-08-17 Thread Brent Clark
Hi I would like to know, in production envs, or anything for that matter, may I ask how many of you raise the securelevel. If so, to what do you raise it to. Kind Regards Brent Clark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: securelevels

2008-08-17 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Brent Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I would like to know, in production envs, or anything for that matter, may I ask how many of you raise the securelevel. If so, to what do you raise it to. Hi Brent, Long time no hear! Hope you are good. Why are you

Re: A quick question about X11 and securelevels

2005-08-28 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/28/05, Tom Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the things like not allowing the system clock to change and not allowing formatting of filesystems, but I want to know why you can't run x11 when you have a securelevel greater than or equal to one. there is no _serious_ reason I

Re: A quick question about X11 and securelevels

2005-08-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 12:59:36PM +0400, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 8/28/05, Tom Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the things like not allowing the system clock to change and not allowing formatting of filesystems, but I want to know why you can't run x11 when you have a

A quick question about X11 and securelevels

2005-08-27 Thread Tom Norris
I understand the things like not allowing the system clock to change and not allowing formatting of filesystems, but I want to know why you can't run x11 when you have a securelevel greater than or equal to one. there is no _serious_ reason I wish to know, I'm just curious and google keeps

Xdm Securelevels revisited

2005-01-27 Thread markzero
Some time ago, I mused upon the possibility of running Xorg in a securelevel 0 environment (and I forgot to thank Lowell Gilbert for his advice, sorry!). http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-December/069141.html I actually tried it on a test machine about five minutes ago

Re: Xdm Securelevels revisited

2005-01-27 Thread Xian
On Friday 28 January 2005 01:13, markzero wrote: securelevel is raised before xdm can start which causes fireworks. just a thought: if you raise the securelevel after xdm has started and it dies, would you get fireworks again? -- /Xian Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by

Re: Xdm Securelevels revisited

2005-01-27 Thread markzero
securelevel is raised before xdm can start which causes fireworks. just a thought: if you raise the securelevel after xdm has started and it dies, would you get fireworks again? I'm leaving the text consoles open for that very reason. If xdm dies, tries to restart (it will try every 30

Re: Xorg xdm securelevels

2004-12-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to push my securelevel up to 1 in order to better enforce my security policy (protecting chflags, kernel modules etc) but this of course would break Xorg as it requires access to /dev/io. I've heard that it's possible to run Xorg via xdm whilst the

Xorg xdm securelevels

2004-12-22 Thread Mark
Hello. I realise this may have been covered before and that this may not be the correct list (freebsd-x11 seemed to be more about developement rather than configuration) but anyway: I would like to push my securelevel up to 1 in order to better enforce my security policy (protecting chflags,