Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:41:25 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? Message-ID: <E7599201-E4C7-41F8-AD2B-8094AA1C1511@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20070112003315.GA37679@ns.umpquanet.com> References: <20070111052604.BAC5D16A575@hub.freebsd.org> <20070111062058.GA44045@ns.umpquanet.com> <45A6412C.308@vidican.com> <20070112003315.GA37679@ns.umpquanet.com>
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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. [ Standard computer PSUs use a high-voltage switching power supply design that really should not be peed upon, although I suppose the flyback transformer inside a CRT would be considerably more dangerous. ] -- -Chuck PS: I betcha the client thought the whole matter was a "catastrophe"... :-)
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