freebsd and securelevel question

2007-05-11 Thread Gót András
Hi, So. The simple question is: Why FreeBSD has securelevel 0 if init sets it to 1, if it sees at boot that the level is 0? :) It's OK that it's in the manual, but there are two default ways to set securelevel at boot time also. I don't really get the point of this forced 0 to 1 changing. We'd

Re: freebsd and securelevel question

2007-05-11 Thread Thomas Hurst
* G?t Andr?s ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So. The simple question is: Why FreeBSD has securelevel 0 if init sets it to 1, if it sees at boot that the level is 0? :) So when you boot to single user mode you can turn off immutable/append only flags etc, without letting those capabilities propagate

Re: freebsd and securelevel question

2007-05-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Gót András [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So. The simple question is: Why FreeBSD has securelevel 0 if init sets it to 1, if it sees at boot that the level is 0? :) It's OK that it's in the manual, but there are two default ways to set securelevel at boot time also. I don't really get the point