Re: No Security is Bad Security:

[taral () CYBERJUNKIE COM (Taral)]

On Wed, 03 Feb 1999, Jan B. Koum wrote:
> > 1) Don't log in as root on a machine that most likely has been
> > compromised. Bsd things can happen.
>
>        You have to login as root to shutdown the system. You don't
>        want to 'just turn it off' since you can loose data.

Many machines have an emergency shutdown system of some sort. Linux/i386 2.2
goes one-up by providing one that doesn't execute any binaries (magic SysRq
key).

Taral