* [9fans] Console locking
@ 2002-03-03 9:26 Lucio De Re
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From: Lucio De Re @ 2002-03-03 9:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm sure I've asked this question before, but I can't seem to find
the answer anywhere:
Why were the console lock functions removed from the cpu and file
server in 3ed Plan 9? The details have been commented out so I
assume the decision was not utterly final and I'm curious about
the motivation(s) for it.
From where I sit, I don't have enough physical security in place
to protect the auth and file servers (I also like to think that I
don't need that level of protection), so the additional precaution
of locking the console would be quite useful. I'm putting it all
back for that reason and I wonder if that is a silly thing to do.
++L
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* Re: [9fans] Console locking
@ 2002-03-03 15:13 rob pike
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From: rob pike @ 2002-03-03 15:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Feel free to turn it back on. The details are foggy but I believe
we turned it off for several reasons, among them that we keep
a log file of the console's activity and the password tended
to turn up there.
-rob
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