AW: AW: AW: VT switch - console DOS-Attack??

[Unger R. <ric...@te...>]

Hi!

This is true, of course... If you're aware of the suid program in =
advance you can use group permissions to restrict execution to a =
selected set of users. I'm sure that's not exactly the solution you're =
looking for either...

There should really be an easy option to set the max number of VTs...

Or perhaps even better would be a mechanism that restricts VT switching =
to kernel space, in response to local keyboard events only.

Richard Unger


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> >I think only the root user can switch VTs... (or am I wrong here?)
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> But as soon as it is abused, than it is fun no more.... :(
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