ctrl-c during boot != good

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Wed Sep 27 18:46:47 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 23:43 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 19:45 +0200, Ola Thoresen wrote:
> > > Bill, doesn't the facility already exist for those people? Namely
> > > "interactive boot"?
> > > 
> > > Enabling this seems like a very bad tradeoff security wise. It is
> > > friendly/easier to always login to the GUI as root but we don't because
> > > that is bad security practice.
> > 
> > If the facility already exists with "interactive boot", then why would
> > it have any implications to be able to ctrl-c in addition?
> > 
> > I have a few services starting at boot that depends on network (mounting
> > of NFS-shares, connectiong to LDAP-servers and so on) which makes
> > booting without network a _real_ pain.
> 
> Maybe those services should get fixed to check for the existence of a
> network connection before trying to do what they do.  Rather than
> hacking around dumb apps, we should fix the problem at the source.

This is still the wrong model.  Services should start correctly if
there's a network or not, and to respond correctly if the network is
brought up later, as well.

-- 
  Peter




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