Aren/NetBSD
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Add some details about init's role with securelevel.

Browse Source 
Add references to other manual pages for more details.
This commit is contained in:
reed 2008-11-11 00:14:55 +00:00
parent 5c180a1861
commit 68f20c24d9
1 changed files with 21 additions and 3 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

24
sbin/init/init.8
View File

@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $NetBSD: init.8,v 1.53 2008/10/21 02:33:53 lukem Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: init.8,v 1.54 2008/11/11 00:14:55 reed Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)init.8 8.6 (Berkeley) 5/26/95
.\"
.Dd October 21, 2008
.Dd November 10, 2008
.Dt INIT 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ may be passed
from the boot program to prevent the system from going multi-user and
to instead execute a single user shell without starting the normal
daemons.
If the kernel is in a secure mode,
.Nm
will downgrade it to securelevel 0 (insecure mode).
The system is then quiescent for maintenance work and may
later be made to go to state 2 (multi-user) by exiting the single-user
shell (with ^D).
@ -88,6 +91,20 @@ at this point, the
process will be run inside a
.Xr chroot 2
indicated by sysctl with the same error handling as above.
.Pp
If the administrator has not set the security level to -1
to indicate that the kernel should not run multiuser in secure
mode, and the
.Pa /etc/rc
script has not set a higher level of security
than level 1, then
.Nm
will put the kernel into securelevel mode 1.
See
.Xr rc.conf 5
and
.Xr secmodel_securelevel 9
for more information.
.It
Set up ttys as specified in
.Xr ttys 5 .
@ -349,7 +366,8 @@ device driver because of a persistent device error condition.
.Xr rescue 8 ,
.Xr shutdown 8 ,
.Xr sysctl 8 ,
.Xr secmodel_bsd44 9
.Xr secmodel_bsd44 9 ,
.Xr secmodel_securelevel 9
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm