Subject: Re: kern/1967: securelevel should be patchable
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/22/1996 18:02:30
> From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:15:16 -0800

> On Mon, 22 Jan 1996 01:23:22 -0500 
>  John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>  > >How-To-Repeat:
>  > 	echo "set securelevel=-1" | gdb -k -w /netbsd
> 
> I imagine that the current practice of putting it in the bss was done 
> specifically to prevent what you'd like to be able to do :-)

Perhaps, but that's a false security.
If I can modify the kernel, i'm in!

Gordon