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From: Laurent Fabre (fabrematranet.com)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 05:55:56 CDT

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    Rasputin wrote:
    > * Laurent Fabre <fabrematranet.com> [011005 10:50]:
    >
    >>Rasputin wrote:
    >>
    >>>* Eli Dart <dartnersc.gov> [011004 19:30]:
    >>>
    >
    >>>>>Have fun. Unless there is outpouring from people who love the idea,
    >>>>>I'm not going to commit these to FreeBSD.
    >>>>>
    >>>>>
    >>>>Please consider this as part of an outpouring of support from people
    >>>>who love the idea.
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>"me too".
    >>>
    >>>Isn't this fairly common among the other BSDs as well?
    >>>
    >>>An alternative to securelevel is sometimes useful,
    >>>and KLDs are a fairly well-known attack method against *BSD.
    >>>
    >>>I don't see any harm in adding it as an option - it's doesn't have to
    >>>(definitely shouldn't be) the default, of course.
    >>>
    >
    >>>>I don't always have the option of running a box
    >>>>in securelevel 1, and I would like to have this knob available, even
    >>>>though it doesn't fix the problem all the way. Something similar
    >>>>used to exist in FreeBSD 3.x -- I was sorry when it went away.
    >>>>
    >
    >>please do commit it :)
    >>
    >
    > Eh? If I was a committer, I would - think I've missed your point?
    >
    >
    yup sorry wrong reply :)

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