From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:11:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:10:49 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:63759 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:10:44 -0400 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Message-ID: <3B193A24.B41CF6EC@transmeta.com> Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 12:10:28 -0700 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: missing sysrq In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > > Let me guess... you're using a RedHat system? RedHat, for some > > idiotic reason, defaults to actively turning this off for you (and > > they turn Stop-A off on SPARC, too.) > > > > We turn it off by default because its a rather large dangerous security > hole to leave around when a naiive user makes a basic installation. It is much > better that it is enabled by someone who knows what they are doing and makes > the decision to do so. Thats why we contributed the patch to make syrq runtime > configurable > > Tools like powertweak even give you a nice gui interface for managing it. Sure, if you know about it and know how to find it! -hpa