Removing System Consoles from Fedora

[Andrew Parker]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>> >> 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.
>

It is the virtual terminals, its nothing to do with physical access to
the hosts.  The reasoning is that some features don't work in some
locales, and its not being maintained any more.