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Improve the clarification of the handling of the securelevel.

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Submitted by:	bde
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Sheldon Hearn 2000-09-13 08:39:41 +00:00
parent 8e847be836
commit 01de01168f
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=65803
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@ -93,8 +93,6 @@ is marked as
.Pp
The kernel runs with four different levels of security.
Any super-user process can raise the security level, but no process
(including
.Nm Ns )
can lower it.
The security levels are:
.Bl -tag -width flag
@ -142,10 +140,8 @@ leaves it unchanged.
Otherwise,
.Nm
raises the level to 1 before going multi-user for the first time.
No process, including
.Nm
itself,
can reduce the level, even on return to single-user.
Since the level can not be reduced, it will be at least 1 for
subsequent operation, even on return to single-user.
If a level higher than 1 is desired while running multi-user,
it can be set before going multi-user, e.g., by the startup script
.Xr rc 8 ,