On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 19:45 +0200, Ola Thoresen wrote: > > Bill, doesn't the facility already exist for those people? Namely > > "interactive boot"? > > > > Enabling this seems like a very bad tradeoff security wise. It is > > friendly/easier to always login to the GUI as root but we don't because > > that is bad security practice. > > If the facility already exists with "interactive boot", then why would > it have any implications to be able to ctrl-c in addition? > > I have a few services starting at boot that depends on network (mounting > of NFS-shares, connectiong to LDAP-servers and so on) which makes > booting without network a _real_ pain. Maybe those services should get fixed to check for the existence of a network connection before trying to do what they do. Rather than hacking around dumb apps, we should fix the problem at the source. Dan > 99.9% of the time, I am connected to the network, and this is no > problem. But the remaining 0.1% is normally when I need to boot _fast_ > - because there is a problem with the network, and I need the laptop to > fix it. > > I _could_ remember to boot into runlevel 1 and start neccessary services > manually. > Or I _could_ remember to press I for interactive boot. > But it is _so_ much easier to just press ctrl-c when the boot hangs on > "mounting nfs shares" instead of having to reboot again. > > It could ofcourse be made configureable, but then the same thing should > be done for the "Interactive boot". Then there are times when you need > it even if it is turned off in the config-file, so you would need to be > able to override it from grub, and then my question is - what are the > _real_ security gained from this? > > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
