On Saturday, August 08, 2015 6:28:00 PM Mick wrote: > On Saturday 08 Aug 2015 18:02:00 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 16:00:29 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > Yep, I find it infuriating that by default all distros seem to go to > > > great effort to hide as much information about the boot/startup > > > process as possible. WTF? Do they think that stuff is top secret or > > > something? Are they afraid they'll lose their jobs if that info gets > > > out? > > > > No, they think that the type of user they are trying to attract is likely > > to be scared off by all that cryptic text scrolling by. They are probably > > right. > > > > Gentoo doesn't hide it, it merely clears the screen once the boot has > > completed successfully. If the boot halts, you can see where and, > > usually, why it stopped. Try that with openUbundora. > > > Also on a server console you may not want anyone walking by to see what > services you're running, what your IP address is, what NFS it's connecting to, > etc. > > Of course, for a home PC with a single user these concerns do not apply. >
Besides the point that a server don't usually have a display attached and don't sit somewhere where people can just walk by, most of that data is network discoverable. Plus if you want to intrude you don't really target a specific box but specific services. So I don't see the security problem. I do see the privacy issue that Poison mentioned but I think it's the user reponsibility not to leave sensitive data on screen. I like it the way it is but that's only because it looks prettier :) -- Fernando Rodriguez
