Re: Clear reboot?

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Mon, 17 May 1999 03:17:24 -0700 (PDT)

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On Mon, 17 May 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> If this wasn't done correctly, within a day or so something would
> appear on bugtraq on how to remotely reboot linux boxes. Effective
> DoS or whatever. True, you could load a password via sysctl, but many
> people wouldn't. I just don't think this is such a great idea...

How about making it unusable without a password. No password, no reboot
packet. End of story.

-Dan

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