On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:14:39PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > > Only the system administrator should be allowed to do something, > > and that probably would entail killing my processes. > Uhm, what prevents an user with physical access from just removing power > and thereby killing your processes. Often, physical security features in a lab -- the actual machine may be in a locked cabinet. That's not the normal case, but any such feature should be easy to disable system-wide. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit.