Dax Kelson <dax@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 13:49 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: [...] > > We have multiple requests from people who want to be able to press > > ctrl-c to stop hanging daemons. Note that you can *already* interrupt > > rc.sysinit. > Bill, doesn't the facility already exist for those people? Namely > "interactive boot"? Yes and no. The time where it reacts is /way/ too short, so you have to try half a dozen times to get it right here. Besides, there are reasons for hangs before that point (can't mount /usr, NFS hosed come to mind) > 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. Right. > The interruptibility of rc.sysinit should be fixed. If some miscreant has physical access to the box and is able to boot it, the game is over anyway. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
