Re: Linux login security approaches

Michael Dale Long (mlong@custom.net)
Tue, 8 Dec 1998 17:25:30 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Sam Mortimer wrote:

> In article <74jr4v$hd1$1@gate.mps.co.uk> you write:
> >
> >Get linux 2.1.x, compile in Magic SysReq support. SAK is Alt-Sysreq-K.
>
> why 2.1.x? SAK (that would be Secure Attention Key) has been around for

Probably because 2.0.x doesn't have Alt+Sysreq in it. Will that be left
in the 2.2 series, or will it be taken out? I would like to see it as an
option. Maybe in the productions series there should be a toned down
version of it as an option, which only provides a few of the options
(notably the SAK). That would be good for administrators who don't want
console users to have the full Alt+sysreq powers.

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