On Saturday 08 April 2006 11:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
[snip] > 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. KDM and Gnome folk including Firefox, OO seem to be 'young bucks' intent on telling you how you should use your computer [ooops sounds like a criticism of MS] and forgetting the long established tried and trusted unix paradigsm. EG I have 4 development machines in my room. No security, no body else, multiple logins. Let ME do what I want to do. <sigh> James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
