Re: ctrl-c during boot != good

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Dax Kelson (dax gurulabs com) said: 
> SysVinit-2.86-12
> ----------------
> * Thu Sep 21 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com> - 2.86-12
> - set controlling tty for /etc/rc so that ctrl-c can be passed to hung
>   services (#184340)
> 
> I don't have the permission to read the bug, so I could be interpreting
> this wrong.
> 
> You do *not* want users to be able to press ctrl-c during boot up.
> Otherwise they can completely fsck the starting of daemons or commands
> (like remounting / rw), possibly causing a serious security breach. This
> is also a disaster for a kiosk where random malicious joe blows can
> screwup and stop the boot.
> 
> I filed a bug circa 1997ish to fix the "can press control-c during
> bootup" problem. Lets not go backwards.

We have multiple requests from people who want to be able to press
ctrl-c to stop hanging daemons. Note that you can *already* interrupt
rc.sysinit.

Bill