Re: No Security is Bad Security:

From: Taral (taralat_private)
Date: Thu Feb 04 1999 - 11:05:46 PST

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On Wed, 03 Feb 1999, Jan B. Koum wrote:
>> 1) Don't log in as root on a machine that most likely has been
>> compromised. Bsd things can happen.
>
>        You have to login as root to shutdown the system. You don't
>        want to 'just turn it off' since you can loose data.

Many machines have an emergency shutdown system of some sort. Linux/i386 2.2
goes one-up by providing one that doesn't execute any binaries (magic SysRq
key).

Taral

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