From: frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner) Subject: Re: Linus security/Non root access Date: 25 Aug 1992 21:36:40 GMT
In article <3000@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>, pdp@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Paul Douglas Page) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug21.051117.17172@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> platt@coos.dartmouth.edu (The Crouton Man) writes:
|> >In article <1992Aug21.020626.20221@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
|> >:Frank Pikelner (frank@cs.yorku.ca) wrote:
|> >:
|> >:: I'd like to find out if it is possible to say install several machines to run
|> >:: Linux and allow the public to use them. The problem I'm trying to resolve is I
|> >:: need the machines to have access to a floppy drive, but I do not want anyone
|> >:: to be able to boot the machine using their own floppy, and maybe gain access as
|> >:: root.
|>
|> Is it esential to have floppy access? I simply run my public access machine with out a floppy drive and do all the maintenance from a remote system across a serial line, seems to work o.k.
|>
|> -paul.
Yes. The machines were intended to be used in a lab for some student work/hacking.
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