From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 11 06:37:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12824 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 06:37:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-96.airnet.net [207.242.81.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12818 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 06:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA06839; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 08:37:22 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <36712E22.E290507A@airnet.net> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 08:37:22 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Friedrich CC: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Securing the FreeBSD console References: <199812100104.UAA19560@laker.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Friedrich wrote: > That's a big concern for people that have been brainwashed by > IBM/Microsoft/Intel into thinking that's a way out of a problem. But > many, if not most, of the people using unix are not used to rebooting > the machine to recover. There is at least one new user who learned the salute first, prior to understanding "su root" and "man shutdown". I think its interesting that people are familiar with other OS's understand that Control-Alt-Delete means the system is dead, whereas with FreeBSD, that can be a normal shutdown. Hey! We beat Microsoft; Windows shutdown is at the minimum two keystrokes: ALT-F4 and Enter. FreeBSD: One. LOL. -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message