[347] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
console security (was Re: problem with selection)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
Mon Sep 4 18:59:35 1995
From: kjh@seas.smu.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 06:23:27 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199508300303.XAA31756@miranda.uwaterloo.ca> from "Zygo Blaxell" at Aug 29, 95 11:03:28 pm
Zygo Blaxell writes:
>Console security really sucks on Linux.
If anybody is sitting at the console they can do anything they want on
any of the virtual console terminals anyway. In addition, there can be
no security once access to physical hardware is possible.
Why put effort into fixing what can't be fixed?
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