-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: > On Wednesday 19 December 2007 16:36:40 Mats Erik Andersson wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> would it be a serious security flaw to arrange >> that at least the bootfloppy provides a serial >> console in the form the image is delivered from >> "factory"? The neccesary changes are easy enough: >> >> 1) an addition of "console=ttyS0,19200n8 console=tty0" >> to the file syslinux.cfg >> >> and >> >> 2) removal of one hash mark in front of "ttyS0" in >> /etc/inittab. >> >> Such serial access would very much lessen the labour >> to configure a recycled, but functional machine. >> >> Regards >> >> Mats Erik Andersson > > Hi Mats; > > I talked with Eric Spakman and he remembered, why we removed it from the > image > a few years ago: On machines with no serial console attached the screen was > flooded with messages about init respawning too fast about every five > seconds. And I think, his memory is correct in that case. > So we refuse to change it back -. I hope you understand
I agree the proposed solution is unsuitable, but perhaps there's still something that can be done to address the basic problem. What about a one-time script run at boot that checks for a serial port and fires of a getty if it finds one? That would side-step the respawning issues with inittab, not require the initrd scripts dynamically generate inittab based on detected hardware (dangerous IMHO), but would still allow for serial console access 'out of the box'. - -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHej3ZLywbqEHdNFwRAmu5AKCbQtkmQ3bLv7H21os7bJCDymOqzwCgkTgv PNwA+Vd5RIw6+J222EhP+gc= =pTUq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
