On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:04 +0000, kko wrote: > Martin Pitt wrote: > "However, I could log into a different console/pty without any problem in > every case, so it never locked me out completely. Did that happen to anyone?" > > In short, no, not to me. I believe that having the option "tty_tickets" > in '/etc/sudoers' should prevent this from being a real possibility. > > (I did point out at some point that _if_ your X failed to start _and_ > you only had one getty configured, you'd be in slightly more trouble. Of > course, if you've modified your install this much, you know how to e.g. > use a rescue disc.)
It is possible to be in a situation where you can't easily use a rescue disk. To give an example, I once worked on a project at Sun Microsystems where we had to continue working over the Christmas break. I had non-refundable airline tickets, so I during the break, I was about 3000 miles away from our lab, logged in via a VPN and using VNC. We had a mix of systems, including a Linux one attached to a terminal server via a serial port. We'd use the terminal server to boot the system and get some messages when Linux crashed (we were developing a loadable kernel module). It was really important to be able to do as much as possible without physical access to the computer. Losing root access would have been a real annoyance - you might have to call someone and ask that person to drive into work to fix it. Regards, Bill -- "sudo -k" fails when timestamp is in the future https://launchpad.net/bugs/43233 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
