Re: [Patch]: SysRQ password protection and such for 2.1.10{7,8pre1}.

Anders Melchiorsen (postmaster@and.nospam.kampsax.k-net.dk)
29 Jun 1998 00:24:45 +0200


Myrdraal <myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org> writes:

> any of the functionality. What do you people out there think of this
> patch?

I think that SysRq functionality should only be enabled on single user
boxes. All this turning on/off stuff is not going to get used, if you
ask me.

On public machines, in case of trouble, the machine will probably get
rebooted (one way or the other) long before an admin gets to
Alt-SyRq-S-U-B. If it is not rebooted it will be unusable and that is
actually far worse than fsck'ing the file system.

-- 
Regards, Anders
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