Re: About the login shell

To: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: About the login shell
From: Moritz Schulte <moritz@duesseldorf.ccc.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:18:27 +0200
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Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> What about making the console a login shell by default, and on
> remote connections a login prompt?

I already found that comment in the list archive, but I still don't
get it: why do you still want to make console access so insecure?
What is the advantage?  (Beside that fact that such a mechanism
wouln't be consistent).

		moritz
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