On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis<eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > 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?
no password protection will suffice when ethics fails. iru