On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:06:21PM -0500, Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:16:45PM -0400, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: | > Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > > This is undesirable but has been true for a long time on RedHat. Normal | > > users can halt them and reboot them. | > Only if you are logged in at the console. | I agree you have to be logged in at the console. But I guess I am unix | predjudiced but why should a normal user ever be able to halt or reboot | a machine. Sounds like a security hole to me.
If you're logged in at the console you have physical access to the machine. No amount of software security will protect it. So why not? If you really don't want the users to have access to this then keep them physically remote from the hardware. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ The mark must be robust enough to survive MP3 transmission over the Internet, but remain inaudible when played on the yet to be launched DVD-Audio players. - the SDMI audio watermarkers literally ask for the impossible, since all audio compressors aim to pass _only_ human perceptible data http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224836 _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
