Re: Proposal: Inhibit "console down"

On Sep 21, 2007, at 14:29, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I admit I'm not a common user of most types of non-computing devices
> that many conserver users may have connected to their console servers
> for one reason or another, but I must say I've never encountered any
> kind of device in recent years that echoed a password back to the  
> user.

  It's very common for routers to require you to enter a new  
password in
into the CLI, which will be echo'd.  The password prompts don't  
typically
echo passwords, but passwords are sometimes used in other ways.  This
is the first example I have thought of, but I'm sure there are others.

> I.e. I think stopping logging to hide passwords is a very poor  
> excuse.  :-)

  I think this would be something that conserver should have, for  
just this
above reason.  I think it should be a fairly restricted ability, to  
prevent both
abuse and accidental use, but I think it has clear value, in an  
admittedly
small number of situations.

  Just from someone who does console-monitor a variety of routers and
switches, in addition to UNIX host consoles.

                                  - Chris