problems in chflags

[Matthew George]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Smux wrote:

> Hi all!
> I'm getting errors on my server, and would like o try fix this, by that way:
> Verifing errors on my server, I found that someone root called command "chflags sappnd /etc/master.passwd" returning that error:
>
> [root at centerbr /etc]$ chflags nosappnd master.passwd
> chflags: master.passwd: Operation not permitted
>
> Someone can help me how do like to try fix this this problem?
> Thanks.
>
>
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check the sysctl kern.securelevel

if it is >= 1, the system append flag (sappnd) may not be turned off (see
init(8)).

This can be changed by lowering the securelevel setting in rc.conf and
rebooting the system.

-- 
Matthew George
SecureWorks Technical Operations