> This sounds like a great comprimize. That would make the installer
> aware of the issue and enable uthe serial consol during install. Sure
> beats getting surprized later!
As you may have noticed, I've already written that up and sent it to the
ftp site. It was just so easy I couldn't wait. Right now, it's just a
simple yes/no box that asks if you want to enable serial console on ttyS0.
That could be expanded to ttyS1 and so forth later, but I'll just wait to
see what kind of need there is for that.
> Although, it your only concern is another root accessable point, maybe
> we could enable logon on ttyS0 and disable root logins from it. That
> would make it available but people would have to su to root. We are all
> doing that anyways, right? ;)
Um..... yeah, that's it. :) I've got ftp and telnet as root enabled on
all my Alphas right now, and the password is very easy to figure out. In
fact, everyone at my house knows it. Not too worried about security on
the development machines, that's for sure. :)
--
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
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