Removing System Consoles from Fedora

[Mike Burger]

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Mike Burger
>>> <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mike Burger wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> What is the point of removing the System Consoles?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Other than securing the system's keyboard/console from unintended
>>>>>> login
>>>>>> attempts?
>>>>>
>>>>> What exactly does this mean?
>>>>> How does one make a login attempt without intending to?
>>>>
>>>> Sorry...allow me to be more clear:
>>>>
>>>> It would prevent attempts to access the system, at the console, by
>>>> unauthorized persons who might otherwise have physical access to the
>>>> box,
>>>> but were not intended, by the system administrator, to actually have
>>>> access to login to the system.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not saying I agree with it...just that I understand the thinking
>>>> behind the question.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I thought thats what passwords were for?
>>
>> Passwords *can* be cracked/hacked/obtained by unscrupulous individuals.
>
> How is that different when logging on to a X session?

Do you mean other than having the physical access to the machine, which an
X session does not afford you?

-- 
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org

Visit the Dog Pound II BBS
telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org

To be notified of updates to the web site, visit:

https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update

or send a blank email message to:

site-update-subscribe at bubbanfriends.org