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Don't ever allow lowering the securelevel at all. Allowing it does

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nothing good except of opening a can of (potential or real) security
holes.  People maintaining a machine with higher security requirements
need to be on the console anyway, so there's no point in not forcing
them to reboot before starting maintenance.

Agreed by:	hackers, guido
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Joerg Wunsch 1997-06-25 07:31:47 +00:00
parent f8a42d82e9
commit e16ed08126
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=26923
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
* SUCH DAMAGE.
*
* @(#)kern_sysctl.c 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/14/94
* $Id: kern_mib.c,v 1.7 1997/03/03 12:58:19 bde Exp $
* $Id: kern_mib.c,v 1.8 1997/03/04 18:31:54 bde Exp $
*/
#include <sys/param.h>
@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ sysctl_kern_securelvl SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS
error = sysctl_handle_int(oidp, &level, 0, req);
if (error || !req->newptr)
return (error);
if (level < securelevel && req->p->p_pid != 1)
if (level < securelevel)
return (EPERM);
securelevel = level;
return (error);