From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <8F852AD3-7E7D-4731-9AC6-598092D81427@storytotell.org> From: Daniel Lyons To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:04:42 -0600 References: <5cb879adc367c917d7159469079e8d82@quanstro.net> <816991C7-CEA9-4DB0-8DF2-C049690AFBAB@sun.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] a few Q's regarding cpu/auth server Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3b8ac546-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Aug 6, 2009, at 6:59 PM, hiro wrote: > don't forget to take away the connectors from the power and reset > buttons, otherwise good security concepts;) Just out of curiosity, is it possible to simply unbind the console on =20= one of these servers after bootup in some startup script? Or perhaps =20 unbind the keyboard device, so you can see messages but not type =20 anything in? Maybe use cat /dev/kprint instead of rc? It seems like it =20= ought to be possible to disable the physical console this way. I ask =20 simply as a way of reducing worry about passerby, not as a security =20 solution. =97 Daniel Lyons