On Tue, November 8, 2005 03:18, Jim McQuillan wrote:
>
> the 'reboot' functionality of ltspinfod is disabled by default.
>
> You'd have to have 'ALLOW_SHUTDOWN = Y' in your lts.conf file to enable
> the rebooting capability.
>
> So, if you want to secure your terminal from being rebooted, then you
> should just make sure you do NOT have that entry in your file.
>
Hello,

Correct this entry is set in the lts.conf file because we DO want to
reboot the LTSP clients. However, as it stands anyone can reboot them
simply by initiating a telnet connection - that we do not want. We only
want the LTSP server to be allowed to reboot them.


John.

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