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

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