Removing System Consoles from Fedora

Steve Repo scmuser at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 04:18:27 UTC 2008


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?

Steve




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