I'm not sure I understand this. The "security risk" you mention comes
from me walking away from my machine. It doesn't matter whether I go
for an ice cream cone, or to another machine to log in. If you're
saying it's good security practice to log out of your machine when you
walk away, I supposed I'd agree with you. But that seems like a
separate issue. For that matter, perhaps I have taken care of that by
using one of these annoying "lock screen until password" screensavers.
Once my machine is left unattended, I don't see how logging into another
machine adds any security issues. It might be a nice feature to have a
choice of connecting to my existing session (a la VNC and
rdesktop--there's a thread going around about this), or to spawn a new
session, but I still don't see the security aspect.
As for bugs and features, given the rock-solid multiuser heritage of
Unix systems, I tend to see anything that imposes 1-per-user or
1-per-server limitations as much more likely to be a bug than a feature.
Cheers,
Ken Tanzer
Burke Almquist wrote:
This "bug" actually makes sense from a security perspective. Since you
can't be two places at once physically, why would you want to stay
logged in if you leave your machine? It's a bit of a security risk to
do so. In some respect, it's a bug not a feature.
On Apr 6, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Ken Tanzer wrote:
I just want to say, though, that being logged in two terminals at
once is rather common, at least for us, and very useful. (Or, more
precisely, it's very "unuseful" if this doesn't work well.) I have a
terminal at my desk, which I am typically logged into all the time.
I often will need to log into a terminal somewhere else in the
building, resulting in two simultaneous logins.
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