Subject: Re: rc.d: securelevel and kern.securelevel behavior in 1.5S/macppc
To: Chris Tribo <ctribo@del.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 03/31/2001 17:19:50
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:27:50PM -0500, Chris Tribo wrote:
> 
>     I changed my rc.conf and added the line securelevel=NO, used 'shutdown
> now' and then exited to reload the rc's. In the rc script I got "Kernel
> securelevel 0 -> 0" but then as soon as the rc finished, and the Login
> prompt popped up on the console, I got init: kernel securelevel changed from
> 0 -> 1. There's apparently no man page for securelevel and sysctl -w
> kern.securelevel=0 is denied, for obvious reasons. Is this the expected
> behavior? This is just the standard GENERIC kernel config, do I need
> options=insecure in my kernel config to get securelevel 0 in multi-user?

yes, you need 'options INSECURE'. 

Hum, maybe we could now remove code from init which bumps the securelevel,
as it's done in the rc script ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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