On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 17:26 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> > (the "system" flags on *BSD are tied to securelevel; the closet solaris
> > equivalent would be to define new "set system flag" and "clear system
> > flag" privileges).
> 
> There'd have to be a way to drop these privs from L on all running
> processes, which there is, using ppriv(1).  So I can see a service whose
> start method loops over listing all processes (but itself), dropping
> these privs from their L until no procs remain with these privs, then
> exit.  Is that what you had in mind?

I think there very well may be a bunch of plausible alternative ways to
exclude 'clear system flag bit' from the L set; designing the full
mechanism is probably best done elsewhere...

                                        - Bill




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