From: John Haxby <john.haxby@oracle.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_SYSRQ
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:11:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA0E321.2030400@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA0DF81.3030204@trash.net>
On 17/03/10 13:56, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
>> The SYSRQ target will allow to remotely invoke sysrq on the local
>> machine. Authentication is by means of a pre-shared key that can
>> either be transmitted plaintext or digest-secured.
>>
> Lets deal with the other modules first while I make up my mind.
>
I'm happy to defend the security aspects of this module, if that's
what's concerning you.
I do know that there are quite a few people here who want to be able to
do remote sysrq -- they used to have a "crash trolley" consisting of a
PS/2 keyboard and a monitor. Unfortunately most of their new machines
only have USB and you can't hotplug a USB keyboard in many of the
circumstances for which you want to (for example) trigger a crash.
I guess that also means I'm happy to produce valid use-cases.
jch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-17 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-17 13:18 nf-next: checks and three modules Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:18 ` [PATCH 1/9] netfilter: xtables: do without explicit XT_ALIGN Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:18 ` [PATCH 2/9] netfilter: xtables: slightly more detailed checkentry return values Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 14:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 14:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 14:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 14:36 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 14:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 21:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-18 11:14 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 13:18 ` [PATCH 3/9] netfilter: xtables: restrict TCPMSS to mangle table as intended Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:30 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 13:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:36 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 13:18 ` [PATCH 4/9] netfilter: xtables: clean up xt_mac match routine Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:19 ` [PATCH 5/9] netfilter: xtables: limit xt_mac to ethernet devices Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 13:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 13:19 ` [PATCH 6/9] netfilter: xtables: resort osf kconfig text Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:19 ` [PATCH 7/9] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_SYSRQ Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 14:11 ` John Haxby [this message]
2010-03-17 14:43 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-20 1:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-22 15:14 ` John Haxby
2010-03-22 16:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 14:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 14:24 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 13:19 ` [PATCH 8/9] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_TEE Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:35 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 13:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 13:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-23 1:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-23 11:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-26 2:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-20 2:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-22 16:58 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-22 17:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-23 12:04 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-23 12:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-23 12:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-23 12:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-23 13:45 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-17 13:19 ` [PATCH 9/9] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_condition Jan Engelhardt
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