> The man page says it prompts for a password on the cpu server, but > that doesn't happen; the source has a pass function but it's not > called anywhere.
It used to, but the new security model invalidated that concept: some of its foundations fell foul of the new design and were discarded. That was where it was decided (I believe, I wasn't there) that console security on CPU servers was a chimera that did not need further effort. I remember querying it out of habit at the time, I haven't looked back since. ++L
