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From: david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Async terminal as console on a Sun
Message-ID: <4341@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 19:53:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: elroy.4341
Posted: Tue Aug 25 19:53:41 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Aug-87 03:43:20 EDT
References: <306@pvab.UUCP> <26419@sun.uucp>
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Summary: Useful addition

In article <26419@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
... Discussion of CRT as console
> 
> Perhaps there should have been a "disable" switch; I don't know whether this
> was not considered or was considered and rejected (for e.g. cost reasons).
 
This brings up a problem that exists with Suns that I have.  The Suns
are inherently insecure because anyone using a 3/50 can just
power off the machine and reboot it in single user mode and become
root.

I hope some marketroids are listening, it would be real nice to have a 
hardware switch that disables the console from interuptting the CPU
with an L1-A or BREAK, with a key lock of course.  I realize that
this would be tough to add in the existing machines because the
PROM monitor would need to be rewritten but I think a lot of
organizations would pay for the feature in the future.

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