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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configurable Magic Sysrq
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 03:24:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041029032420.327d65dd.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041029101758.GA7278@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> > Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>  > >
>  > >    I know about a few people who would like to use some functionality of
>  > >  the Magic Sysrq but don't want to enable all the functions it provides.
>  > 
>  > That's a new one.  Can you tell us more about why people want to do such a
>  > thing?
>    For example in a computer lab at the university the admin don't want
>  to allow users to Umount/Kill (mainly to make it harder for users to
>  screw up the computer) but wants to allow SAK/Unraw.
>    Another (actually not so legitimate ;) example is that in e.g. SUSE
>  kernels sysrq is turned off by default (some people are afraid that it
>  could be a security issue) so most users have it turned off and hence
>  when the computer deadlocks, there's no debugging output.

OK, fair enough.  I'll merge the patch if you talk suse into enabling
sysrq-T and sysrq-P and sysrq-M by default ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-29 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-29  9:39 [PATCH] Configurable Magic Sysrq Jan Kara
2004-10-29  9:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-29 10:17   ` Jan Kara
2004-10-29 10:24     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-10-29 20:09       ` Dave Jones
2004-10-30  6:45         ` Olaf Hering
2004-11-01  9:29         ` Jan Kara
2004-10-31 18:59     ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-29 11:34   ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-29 13:35     ` Jan Kara
2004-10-29 13:44       ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-29 14:33       ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-29 14:50         ` Jan Kara
2004-10-29 14:53           ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01  9:09             ` Jan Kara
2004-10-31 18:52 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-31 19:09   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-10-31 19:44     ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-31 19:12   ` Andreas Schwab
2004-11-01  0:52   ` Tim Connors

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