On Sunday 25 February 2007, M Harris wrote: > . I do not want him to be able to shutdown the > machine (or suspend it, or hibernate it) while I'm logged into it.
That you can think of a single case that goes against the norm does not change the fact that a laptop is THE MOST personal of computers, where 99.9999999% of them are used by a single person at a time. Therefore the standard IS and SHOULD BE that root is NOT required to power down or suspend laptops. Those 00.0000001% of the people who allow simultaneous connections to the laptop can go the extra distance to secure the system against accidental shutdown. What security expert sits a child at the console and then in the same breath preaches security as a reason to inconvenience the vast majority of users? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
