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Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> writes: |
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> The remaining question is: why is the user not allowed to halt it? |
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It's because a user who wants to somewhat permanently disrupt the |
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services the machine provides would need to remain at the keyboard to |
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continue to reboot it and thus can be caught more easily than a user who |
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shuts the machine down and then escapes. |
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This is assuming that a user who does such things isn't smart enough to |
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enter the BIOS setup before they escape, which characterizes users doing |
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such things. |
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That leaves the question why a user who isn't even logged in should be |
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able to reboot, which IIRC they can by default with Ctrl+Alt+Del. Such |
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users shouldn't be allowed to do anything but to log in. |
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Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons |
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might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. |
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