From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 02:05:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D60516A403 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:05:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7541013C459 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:05:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay7.apple.com (relay7.apple.com [17.128.113.37]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0C1fQpX007273; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:41:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay7.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay7.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 115B23006A; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:41:26 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807125-a5a55bb000006e4c-2d-45a6e7464e46 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (unknown [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay7.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 077DE30043; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:41:26 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <20070112003315.GA37679@ns.umpquanet.com> References: <20070111052604.BAC5D16A575@hub.freebsd.org> <20070111062058.GA44045@ns.umpquanet.com> <45A6412C.308@vidican.com> <20070112003315.GA37679@ns.umpquanet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:41:25 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: Nathan Vidican , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:05:57 -0000 On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:52:44AM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Gotcha all beat, screw the 'standard user' issue... I had a client > call > me once cause the office cat peed onto/into the server; no technical > expertise required whatsoever, no password, no re-wiring of network, > heck no opposable digits even or anything else for that matter, yet it > still managed to kill the server ;) That cat is rather fortunate the server didn't kill the cat at the same time. [ Standard computer PSUs use a high-voltage switching power supply design that really should not be peed upon, although I suppose the flyback transformer inside a CRT would be considerably more dangerous. ] -- -Chuck PS: I betcha the client thought the whole matter was a "catastrophe"... :-)