On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 23:43 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 19:45 +0200, Ola Thoresen wrote:
> > Bill, doesn't the facility already exist for those people? Namely
> > "interactive boot"?
> >
> > Enabling this seems like a very bad tradeoff security wise. It is
> > friendly/easier to always login to the GUI as root but we don't because
> > that is bad security practice.
>
> If the facility already exists with "interactive boot", then why would
> it have any implications to be able to ctrl-c in addition?
>
> I have a few services starting at boot that depends on network (mounting
> of NFS-shares, connectiong to LDAP-servers and so on) which makes
> booting without network a _real_ pain.
Maybe those services should get fixed to check for the existence of a
network connection before trying to do what they do. Rather than
hacking around dumb apps, we should fix the problem at the source.
This is still the wrong model. Services should start correctly if
there's a network or not, and to respond correctly if the network is
brought up later, as well.
--
Peter