On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:02:27 -0300 Iruata Souza <iru.mu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis<eeke...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:29:25 -0300 > > Iruata Souza <iru.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> 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. > > > > ETHICS? In a SEVEN YEAR OLD who knows what rm does????? What the fuck > > planet are you from? Don't get me started on my teenage years. > > > > having respect for the shared (or private if you wish) stuff is > ethical. if only prohibition is applied, no password protection will > work. > > a seven year old in anger can surely set fire on the computer or > whatnot if ethics fails him. Again, what planet are you from?! :) Setting fire to the computer will get him in so much trouble it'll hurt nastily, but a little messing with big bro's hobby, while risky, doesn't seem to be anywere near as bad. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
