Removing System Consoles from Fedora

[Dave Feustel]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:48:12AM -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
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> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 03:31:18PM +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
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> >> Fedora Weekly News Issue 143
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> >> Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 143 for the week ending September 7,
> >> 2008.
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> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue143
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> >> This week Announcements trumpets the arrival of a new version of Bodhi,
> >> the freeze of Rawhide and some essential reading on the new package
> >> keys. In Developments we shock you with
> >>"Non-X System Consoles to be  Removed".
> >
> > What is the point of removing the System Consoles?
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> Other than securing the system's keyboard/console from unintended login
> attempts?

Console logins are the only hope of session security since X seems to have ongoing
vulnerabilities.