Re: tlug: Displaying BMPString on Console using printf in C.

["Frank Bennett (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCJVUlaSVzJS8kWSVNJUMlSBsoQg==?= )" <bennett@example.com>]

On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 04:05:21PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Frank, who should know better, writes:
> 
>     Frank> On the other hand, once you've given a stranger access to
>     Frank> the console of your machine, why worry any further about
>     Frank> security?
> 
> Diskless Linux workstation running on readonly NFS root.  I'll trust
> that with nonroot users, but not with root.

Aw, shucks.

Hmm.  If the partition containing the NFS root file hierarchy is mounted
RO to the server, it should give you another line of defense.  I'm still
wrong after saying this, but I feel better.  Sniff.

Cheers,
-- 
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Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
Faculty of Law, Nagoya Univ () email: bennett@example.com
Tel: +81[(0)52]789-2239     () WWW:   http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~bennett/

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