Jeremy Harris wrote: > Aaron Zang wrote: >> If a person is ever allowed to access the local console, he/she >> should be trusted to behave properly. >> Virtual consoles could solve by some degree the situation that a >> person *accidentally* locked several >> of the available virtual consoles, the system administrator could >> login via one of the rest of the available >> consoles and deal with the mess. But if all the available virtual >> consoles are locked out, what should be >> blamed is the management of physical access to the local consoles. > > All very reasonable for a server-class system. Totally useless for a > single-monitor, single keyboard system in a student environment. >
While in a student environment, it's almost safe to say nothing important (business/money related) service is running on that system, so the system admin could even hammer the system to get it back. The locked system situation is not first introduced by virtual console, and it's by the nature of locking screen on a workstation. -- aaron
