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[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Frank Cox wrote:
> >
> > > What's a console
> >
> > The keyboard/monitor that's locally attached to the system (server).
>
> What if you don't use that (or the box doesn't have them) and instead always
> connect via X/freenx/ssh?
>
> > > and what does it have to do with a unix-like system?
> >
> > Among other things, the console user has (or can have) special permissions
> > that
> > are set by /etc/security/console.perms and /etc/security/console.perms.d/
>
> Seems like a really, really bad idea for an operating system that
> permits remote access and doesn't care where you are.

but the fact that you have a port on which you can log in from a
remote location doesn't necessarily make that the "console."  so i
don't see the problem here.

rday
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