Re: [Swsusp-devel] Re: Thoughts wanted on merging Software Suspend enhancements

Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-12T20:18:19Z

Hi again.

On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 08:15, Pavel Machek wrote:
> No, you don't understand.
>
> Magic SysRq is well known mechanism for torturing running
> kernel. Kernel hackers have it enabled, security-consious people have
> it disabled, and it is /proc-tweakable. It also works in cases like
> "the only keyboard on serial terminal", etc.

Ah okay. So the security by obscurity bit was wrong, but the general
idea of SysRq-Esc was right?

Regards,

Nigel

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