Re: mingetty allows control c

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> > > you can also disable for 5 minutes by holding down control C which 
> > > causes mingetty to respawn to fast for init's taste.
> > 
> > That happens with anything, regular getty included.
> 
> I don't think DoS'ing the getty like this is something to worry
> about. It doesn't cause many problems, and to be honest, you have
> little security with physical access anyway. Disabling getty is the
> least of your problems.

Well, starting X after killing a getty makes the console system
unusable when getty comes back to life. I've filed a bug about this,
but I don't think there's an easy fix except tying X to a particular
virtual console.

	Falk