On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > >[ No technical content, just a funny story ] > > > >At a prior job, we had a bunch of servers in a datacenter. Some of > >the datacenter people liked to play with the keyboard; one of them was > >convinced that the only server OS in the whole world was Windows NT. > >He liked to try to log into Windows NT servers (some of the servers > >that were running NT had easy passwords, I guess). > > > >One day this fellow discovered MY servers. The console screen didn't > >dissuade him; he just hit ctrl-alt-del to get a "login screen". Sigh. > >Unscheduled downtime. > > > >Shortly afterward, /etc/inittab had this entry: > > > >ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo "Nice try, dumbass" > > > >And yes, the datacenter guy eventually disappeared. > > > > > > > Isn't this a good example of why _not_ to have ctrl-alt-del reboot the > system?
In a non-physically secure environment, yes! However, it has utility for desktop folks. It wasn't that big a deal to make the change, and in fact I was embarrassed it was a problem in the first place. Of course, you still have the problem of power switches, power cords ... what happens if someone unloads a double barrel 10 guage into the rack, etc. If you can't trust the people working in your datacenter ... Anyway, this is drifting off topic :-) -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] THEY planted The Lone Gunmen to MIND CONTROL the public into seeing TRUTH SEEKERS as CONSPIRACY NUTS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
