Re: Hiding Kernel Messages

[Lars Hansson <lars@unet.net.ph>]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 02:27:46 -0500
"Generic Player" <suck@my-balls.com> wrote:

> That's your opinion, not a fact.  And even if you want to call it a 
> security problem, that doesn't change the reality of the situation.  I 
> have 300 machines where I don't want people who know just enough to 
> break things to screw with the machine at their location.  Its there to 
> route.  There is no need for anything to appear on the screen, as if 
> something breaks, it is simply replaced anyhow.  The machines have to 
> be at remote locations, where we have no way to prevent the people 
> there from messing with them.  You assume that because you didn't think 
> of a reason to do something off the top of your head, that there is no 
> valid reason.

Hiding kernel messages accomplishes nothing and it sure dont prevent anyone
from messing with the machine.
Not having a local console or login prompt would but that's not what this thread
is about.
The original poster asked to hide kernel messages WHILE still having a login prompt.


> Point is, if your contribution is going to be "you don't 
> want to do that" when someone asks how to do something, why not just 
> save yourself the time and not reply?

I suggested an alternative way to accomplish what he needed and that maybe he tried to approach
the problem from the wrong angle. It's called constructive criticism. 

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Lars Hansson