>i said programable LOGIN name... other than "!root".... "if" they dont know
>what to logon as then hey... your home free... password are supplemental
>and "of course" necessary after the fact of initiating a login...
Yes, I understood that. What I'm saying is that from a security
viewpoint, a variable userid of length m + a variable password of length
n is (at best) equivalent to a fixed userid + a variable password of
length m + n. I.e. you've effectively made the userid part of the
password.
But anyway, I've certainly never argued for the *removal of the
possibility* of !root logins on the serial ports, just a *way to
disable* them for those who wish/need to. I can't really see why anyone
would object to this - except Livingston who would have to implement it,
of course.:-)
--Per Hedeland
per@erix.ericsson.se