Removing System Consoles from Fedora

[Mike Burger]

> 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.

As I said...I don't agree with it...I'm just saying that I understand the
thinking behind it.

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