sysctl kern.securelevel=2

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Mon Oct 11 22:33:57 PDT 2004


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:03:32 -0400
Chris Collins <z0cool at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Alll
> 
> I was wondering what is the best kern.securelevel to run on a machine
> that provides general internet services, Web, FTP and Email. I don't
> want this so tight I cannot use the machine and I have also read in
> some post that having the secure level set to high can stop a fsck.
> 
> I am running  4.8 stable with ipfw and current kern.securelevel at 0.
> After reading the man page I am thinking that I can safely at level 2
> but I am not sure because of this line in the man page "plus disks may
> not be opened for writing (except by mount(2)) whether mounted or not"
>  What exactly does this mean?
> 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. 

in case you haven't already tried it, you may find 'man securelevel'
helpful.

> Thanks
> Chris
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