But people can always yank the power cord. Follow Paul's advice -- make the machine physically in-accessible. Lock it, fence it in, whatever. Locking racks is also nice. That way people can't even see the machine, just a big cabinet.
What if it is a workstation in a lab? Then disable as much as you can. Make sure bios is safe if it is a x86 box. This is why real workstations are nice -- they are much more secure than x86 PC's. On 10-Oct-98 Maarten Bezemer wrote: >> >> ANOTHER REASON TO PLACE THE SERVERS IN A PHYSICALLY SECURE LOCATION: >> >> I was having an important discussion with a customer that I built a linux >> server for. He brought his young child with him to his office that >> evening. The child behaves very poorly. Guess what button he pressed? The >> reset button on the primary server! This behavior is not limited to >> children, so I suggest that it is best to protect the location. Just make >> a partition and use strong fencing mesh for ventilation so you won't be >> creating a sauna room. Leave the lights off because people like to look in >> and see all the pretty colored LEDs :) > > I was thinking of some other solution: don't connect the reset switch to > the main board... probably one might want to disable (like: always enable) > the power switch. :-) > > --- > Maarten Bezemer > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10-Oct-98 Time: 13:10:30 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
