Removing System Consoles from Fedora

[Mike Burger]

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:48:12AM -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 03:31:18PM +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
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>> >> Fedora Weekly News Issue 143
>> >> ============================
>> >>
>> >> Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 143 for the week ending September
>> 7,
>> >> 2008.
>> >>
>> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue143
>> >>
>> >> This week Announcements trumpets the arrival of a new version of
>> Bodhi,
>> >> the freeze of Rawhide and some essential reading on the new package
>> >> keys. In Developments we shock you with
>> >>"Non-X System Consoles to be  Removed".
>> >
>> > What is the point of removing the System Consoles?
>>
>> Other than securing the system's keyboard/console from unintended login
>> attempts?
>
> Console logins are the only hope of session security since X seems to have
> ongoing
> vulnerabilities.

It's probably more of an issue with the system consoles being accessible
by anyone who can enter into the room where the servers are located.

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