Locked screen

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed May 25 18:19:03 UTC 2005


On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:14:39PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > Only the system administrator should be allowed to do something,
> > and that probably would entail killing my processes.
> Uhm, what prevents an user with physical access from just removing power
> and thereby killing your processes.

Often, physical security features in a lab -- the actual machine may be in a
locked cabinet. That's not the normal case, but any such feature should be
easy to disable system-wide.

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