Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:09:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Enabling all available ttys if available console Message-ID: <CANCZdfpgopf=-5=bi9XViWMXFe=%2BaknJZ8YZmMF2w6-R0tPEEQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20151019210035.GB15569@FreeBSD.org> References: <20151019171215.GX15305@FreeBSD.org> <20151019210035.GB15569@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 05:12:15PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> > For several months now, I have been contemplating enabling all active
> > ttys on the system by 1) changing the defaults from std.9600 to 3wire,
> > and 2) setting ttyu{0,1,2,3} from 'off' to 'onifconsole'.
> >
> > The only drawback to doing this that I can think of is it could open
> > a potential attack vector, however this would require physical access to
> > the system.
> >
> > The benefit to doing this is the system would be accessible via ttys
> > other than ttyu0 by default, which unless there is someone with local
> > access to the system, is painful for administrators to gain console
> > access remotely by default.
> >
> > Are there objections to changing the default, or have I missed something
> > larger in this proposed change?
> >
>
> Based on the replies so far, unless there are no objections by tomorrow,
> I'll commit the change.
>
> Thanks to everyone who replied.
Any chance we can move the tip entries from 9600 to 115200 too for the
other direction?
Warner
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