From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 06/14/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: How to disable C-A-D for non-root users?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 18:04:00 GMT

In article <1993Jun14.132955.16495@cs.tulane.edu> butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler) writes:
>In article <1993Jun14.120156.24266@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>>If you didn't get a login it would probably have been safe to reset. "Secure
>>interrupt" kill -9's all processes on the console as a security measure, if I
>>recall correctly. It's a guarantee that you aren't about to try to log in to
>>someone's Trojan horse.
>>
>Now that seems like a damn good idea. I don't remember seeing anything about
>that in the pl10 announcment.

It was in the serial driver announcement, which predated the pl10 announcement
by about 2 weeks and mentioned that the driver would be in the released pl10
kernel. All the pl10 announcement mentioned was the fact that a new serial
driver version was provided, not the details.

++Brandon 

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