On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:33:18 +0100
"Steve Simon" <st...@quintile.net> wrote:

> I cannot imageine the senario where random people will have access
> to the cpu/auth/file server's consoles. It just doesn't happen
> if you are serious about security.
> 
> However if you want to protect your console against your friends
> I wrote a script to do it /n/sources/contrib/steve/rc/conslock
> you may also want to look at screenlock(1)
> 
> Incidentially I may use this at home to protect my servers console
> against my 2 year old who rather likes keyboards, though this is
> a different type of security.
> 
> -Steve
> 

Speaking of family, I'd imagine a little password protection might go a long 
way to keeping the peace in many families. Respect for siblings' property isn't 
exactly hard-wired into human nature, is it?


-- 
Ethan Grammatikidis

Those who are slower at parsing information must
necessarily be faster at problem-solving.

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