Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cci632!tvf From: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Coherent *nix (was Concurrent UNIX) Message-ID: <41774@cci632.UUCP> Date: 2 Nov 90 15:03:41 GMT References: <41523@cci632.UUCP> Reply-To: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) Organization: Computer Consoles, Inc., An STC Icon, Rochester, NY Lines: 36 In article mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: >tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) writes: >> On a serious multi-user system it wouldn't be so hot, but on most serious >> multi-user systems that I'm familiar with, they also have single >> switches/buttons that could bring down the system Real Fast (including >> hardware resets on 80x86 machines). > >Most serious multi-user systems also have locking panels that cover >switches that bring the system down Real Fast, because bringing the >system down Real Fast is not usually a Desirable Thing to Do, >Especially By Accident. Bet you if I took you to a lot of sites that use Most Serious Systems you'd see how unprotected they really are. I just checked our couputer labs. No keylocks on the sun servers. The VAX keylock doesn't protect you from the Real Nasty switches. The Tahoes we have keylocks, but the sysadmins have left the keys in them. I've been to many other sites, seen gobs of different hardware, if this was uncommon I wouldn't be wasting my breath here (big companies, small companies, universities, computer vendors, etc.). One company lost a room full of computers (about 20, I'd say, all reasonably sized systems) because a visitor pressed a red button near the door. He mistook it for the door open switch, it was clearly marked as an emergency powerdown switch. >Most serious multi-user systems are also kept in locked closets or >restricted-access computer rooms, not sitting under the sysadmin's >desk. Chuckle. Were that it was true. Only when serious multi-user systems are treated seriously. -- Thomas V. Frauenhofer, WA2YYW, tvf@cci.com | Little cockroach on the wall, {uupsi,ccicpg}!cci632!tvf@uunet.uu.net | Don't you have no friends at all? tvf@frau.UUCP | Doesn't anybody love you? tvf1477@ma.cs.rit.edu | God will love you! (SQUISH)