Removing System Consoles from Fedora

[Andrew Parker]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>

If I am unscrupulous to have someone's password, and I have physical
access to a host, how is removing console sessions going to stop me
logging into that host?

This is aside from the fact that someone who has physical access to a
host can break in very easily without having any passwords.