From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: John Haxby <john.haxby@oracle.com>,
Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More secure SYSRQ for xtables-addons
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:39:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493491D3.50708@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492E926D.5020807@oracle.com>
John Haxby wrote:
> Rationale:
>
> I want to be able to use SYSRQ to reboot, crash or partially diagnose
> machines that become unresponsive for one reason or another. These
> machines, typically, are blades or rack mounted machines that do not
> have a PS/2 connection for a keyboard and the old method of wheeling
> round a "crash trolley" that has a monitor and a keyboard on it no
> longer works: USB keyboards rarely, if ever, work because by the time
> the machine is responding only to a ping, udev is incapable of setting
> up a new keyboard.g/majordomo-info.html
This module is starting to look kind of useful. Maybe its time for
a resubmission for review and possibly merging once these patches
are included.
If we were to merge it, it would also be good to get some feedback
from the crypto guys about whether the chosen authentication scheme
meets its claims.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-02 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-27 12:28 [PATCH] More secure SYSRQ for xtables-addons John Haxby
2008-12-01 19:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-01 22:02 ` John Haxby
2008-12-01 22:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-01 22:40 ` sg_set_page not usable for .bss? Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-02 0:10 ` David Miller
2008-12-02 0:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-02 0:14 ` David Miller
2008-12-02 1:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-02 6:55 ` David Miller
2008-12-02 1:39 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-12-02 1:53 ` [PATCH] More secure SYSRQ for xtables-addons Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-02 9:43 ` John Haxby
2008-12-02 17:46 ` John Haxby
2008-12-12 8:38 ` John Haxby
2008-12-13 22:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-15 12:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
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