From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 13 02:54:48 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 0C55B16A570 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:54:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (7-137-58-66.gci.net [66.58.137.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939D713C45B for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:54:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stargate.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77887E29; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:39:07 -0900 (AKST) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Alaska Paradise Travel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:39:00 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070111052604.BAC5D16A575@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Face: jC2w\k*Q1\0DA2Q0Eh&BrP/Rt2M,^2O#R07VoT98m*>miQF9%Bi9vy`F6cPjwEe?m,)=?utf-8?q?2=0A=09X=3FM=5C=3AOE9QgZ?="xT3/n3,3MJ7N=Cfkmi%f(w^~X"SUxn>; 27NO; C+)g[7J`$G*SN>{<=?utf-8?q?O=3Bg7=7C=0A=09o=7D=265A=5D4?=@7D`=Eb@Zs1Ln814?]|k@'bG=.Ca"[|8+_.OsNAo8!#?4u MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701121239.04811.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: Nathan Vidican , Lamont Granquist , 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: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:54:48 -0000 On Friday 12 January 2007 10:48, Lamont Granquist wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > 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. > > I haven't lived with a cat in awhile, but don't they tend to 'spray' > rather than 'stream' so that a direct line of current would not be > established from the PSU to the cat? While spray(8) may protect the cat, it is likely to invoke crash(8). When combined with dumpon(8) permanent damage may result. :-) Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------