Greetings;
I have been following this discussion sporadically and
it appears to me to be partly much ado about nothing.
Many people on this list have only recently become aware of
VM and don't really understand how things work.
The concern about leaving root logged on is really pretty
much unjustified. On VM when you disconnect you have to either
know the password for the user or have LOGONBY priviledges in
the VM directory to reconnect, or be a class A or C user
and have the SCIF EXEC available.
Now, if you have a lot of VM users that satisfy one or
more of the above requirements I think you have way bigger
security problems right now than you could possibly be
exposed to by leaving root logged on and disconnecting
the linux console!
Good Luck!
Dennis
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Please respond
to Linux on 390
Port
A lot of the objections are being made because the assumption that you need
the root password to shut down is incorrect. Bootshell, the Signal
Shutdown
facility, etc., obviate the need for that.
For automation, I would find some other method of getting commands to a
system. I don't ever leave any of my systems logged on when I disconnect
from the console.
Mark Post
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From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 20:53, James Melin wrote:
> Aside from being EXCEPTIONALLY dangerous, why do you want this?
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While the obvious reason for doing this is the automation that runs on
that virtual console, another good reason imho is that systems staff do
not need to find a root password when system administration is done by
others.
Rob
