Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

Randy Bush (randypsg.com)
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:20:51 -0700 (PDT)

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> date: 1997/06/25 07:31:47; author: joerg; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2
> Don't ever allow lowering the securelevel at all. Allowing it does
> nothing good except of opening a can of (potential or real) security
> holes. People maintaining a machine with higher security requirements
> need to be on the console anyway, so there's no point in not forcing
> them to reboot before starting maintenance.

the only time this is annoying to me is that i have to reboot before doing a
buildworld.

randy

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