Re: Linux login security approaches

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 12:02:36 GMT


Hi,

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 21:08:37 -0500 (EST), Michael Dale Long
<mlong@custom.net> said:

> But doesn't alt-sysrq only work on developmental series? What about 2.0.x
> systems? They are more likely to to be production machines and need this
> kind of security.

Yes. :(

2.0 does have SAK code, but a lot of it is disabled because it does not
know how to deal with things like RAW keyboard mode. The alt-sysrq code
in 2.1 works even in this case.

--Stephen

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