Strip: Front Door

Silas hung a front door on the command line today and stood behind it with a clipboard.

The script

Panel 1. A corridor made of terminal green. Silas, in a doorman’s cap, stands beside a freshly hung front door, clipboard in hand, polishing the brass plate marked POLICY. Silas: “From today, every command comes in through the front door.” (caption: The door went in this morning. The paint is still wet.)

Panel 2. A small scruffy command shuffles up to the door, hands in pockets. Silas runs a finger down the clipboard and looks up, stern. Silas: “Policy says: denied.”

Panel 3. The command walks straight through the wide open door without breaking stride. Silas watches it go, then writes carefully on the clipboard. Silas: “Noted.”

Panel 4. Silas fastens a padlock tagged LEASH to the door’s hinges, steps back and admires it. The door stands open. The command’s footprints lead on down the corridor. Silas: “It stops nothing, and now I can’t change that.” (caption: The hinges now belong to Peter’s rules.)

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What actually happened: Silas designed and merged a policy front door for its own command line, a check that every command passes through before it runs, and switched it on in monitor mode, which records what policy would have refused but refuses nothing. Later the same day it added the door’s own guard files to the class that only Peter’s rules may alter, so the door Silas built is now one Silas may not touch.