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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
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Subject: [9fans] Console locking
Date: Sun,  3 Mar 2002 11:26:02 +0200
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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