From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 20:06:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71DD16A416 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:06:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lamont@scriptkiddie.org) Received: from sploit.scriptkiddie.org (sploit.scriptkiddie.org [216.231.47.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C4AA13C468 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:06:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lamont@scriptkiddie.org) Received: from sploit (sploit [216.231.47.214]) by sploit.scriptkiddie.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l0CJmJdq007542; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:48:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:48:19 -0800 (PST) From: Lamont Granquist To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070111052604.BAC5D16A575@hub.freebsd.org> <20070111062058.GA44045@ns.umpquanet.com> <45A6412C.308@vidican.com> <20070112003315.GA37679@ns.umpquanet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Nathan Vidican , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:06:50 -0000 On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:52:44AM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: >> Gotcha all beat, screw the 'standard user' issue... I had a client call >> me once cause the office cat peed onto/into the server; no technical >> expertise required whatsoever, no password, no re-wiring of network, >> heck no opposable digits even or anything else for that matter, yet it >> still managed to kill the server ;) > > That cat is rather fortunate the server didn't kill the cat at the same time. I haven't lived with a cat in awhile, but don't they tend to 'spray' rather than 'stream' so that a direct line of current would not be established from the PSU to the cat?