-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Devon wrote:
>> >Sorry, I don't know much about Gnome. But the ability to reboot as a >> >user is scary. >> >> No, it isn't. The ability to do that is limited to the user logged in >> at the console, in which case the issue of physical security is moot. >> It won't work over a network unless you're root. If the box was _that_ >> critical, you wouldn't be allowing physical access, would you? > >I started to reply to this myself, because I thought the same, David. >Then I thought better of it and tested. The results were not quite as I >had expected. >I was logged in on the console of the machine in question. Because of >that, I was able to reboot over the network, which I had thought would be >prevented. Yes, I should have been more specific. It's not the console _login_, it's console _ownership_ that makes this possible. Still not scary, though. :-) Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPLWq579BpdPKTBGtEQImOQCZAYH0XCHNXRr9QdO1wWOvqjPBY0sAoJIi zj2PVKIDz2djGuqqrREZ6hyU =9q6+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
