Re: super root shell/mode/api

[Bodo Eggert]

Andrea <andrea256it@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In order to be able to dump/terminate viruses, attacks and OOM processes an
> admin should have the possibility to *quickly* SIGSTP *all* processes except
> vga consoles and to switch from X11 to vga, maybe with SysRq.
> 
> Is this possible?

If there is a malware with root privileges, this would be of no use. You are
0wned.

If there is a malware with user privileges, stopping these processes will
be enough.

So why bother?

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