[9357] in bugtraq
Re: No Security is Bad Security:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taral)
Fri Feb 5 02:12:35 1999
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:05:46 -0600
Reply-To: Taral <taral@CYBERJUNKIE.COM>
From: Taral <taral@CYBERJUNKIE.COM>
X-To: "Jan B. Koum" <jkb@BEST.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
On Wed, 03 Feb 1999, Jan B. Koum wrote:
>> 1) Don't log in as root on a machine that most likely has been
>> compromised. Bsd things can happen.
>
> You have to login as root to shutdown the system. You don't
> want to 'just turn it off' since you can loose data.
Many machines have an emergency shutdown system of some sort. Linux/i386 2.2
goes one-up by providing one that doesn't execute any binaries (magic SysRq
key).
Taral
