On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > >One day this fellow discovered MY servers. The console screen didn't > >dissuade him; he just hit ctrl-alt-del to get a "login screen". Sigh. > >Unscheduled downtime.
> Isn't this a good example of why _not_ to have ctrl-alt-del reboot the > system? Yes and no. Yes if it's a server (you don't want people taking servers down unless they know what they're doing, and probably not even then), no if it's a workstation (the user will only affect himself). Of course, if you give users any way to reboot their own workstations, you may need to lock down BIOS and LILO/GRUB so they can't root the box simply by rebooting. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]