Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

["Roberto Sanchez" <sanchezr@hotmail.com>]

> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:06:21AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > However, if you trust people enough to enable
> > XDMCP for them, then you can probably trust them enough to 
> shutdown/reboot
> > the machine.
>
> Uh...  No.
>
> X terminals?  Thin clients?  Diskless workstations?  Any of these may
> rely on an XDMCP server to provide them with something to display and
> run everything remotely.  In my experience, the users on these sorts
> of workstations are typically _less_ likely to be trusted than those
> with self-contained workstations.  (I know I sure as hell don't want
> any of the 40 people currently logged in on my XDMCP server to be
> able to shut the box down...)

I stand corrected.

-Roberto

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