On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 23:43 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > 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. This is still the wrong model. Services should start correctly if there's a network or not, and to respond correctly if the network is brought up later, as well. -- Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
