Problem with LOGIN and cron

Chris Rees crees at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 13 07:11:33 UTC 2012


On 12 January 2012 23:44, David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 'LOGIN' states:
>        This is a dummy dependency to ensure user services such as xdm,
>        inetd, cron and kerberos are started after everything else, in
>        case the administrator has increased the system security level
>        and wants to delay user logins until the system is (almost) fully
>        operational.
>
> So based on that, 'securelevel' should have:
> +# REQUIRE: sysctl
> +# BEFORE:  LOGIN
> Otherwise a cronjob could act against securelevel=1+ for a short peroid
> of time.

Hm, but what if I have an @reboot line in crontab, that relies on
securelevel <1?

Can't we change the wording in the docs instead?

Chris


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