Re: super root shell/mode/api

Bodo Eggert
2009-05-18T22:56:20Z

Andrea <andrea256it@yahoo.it> wrote:

> In order to be able to dump/terminate viruses, attacks and OOM processes an
> admin should have the possibility to *quickly* SIGSTP *all* processes except
> vga consoles and to switch from X11 to vga, maybe with SysRq.
>
> Is this possible?

If there is a malware with root privileges, this would be of no use. You are
0wned.

If there is a malware with user privileges, stopping these processes will
be enough.

So why bother?