Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268452AbTGLUST (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:18:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268473AbTGLUSS (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:18:18 -0400 Received: from smtp1.clear.net.nz ([203.97.33.27]:23801 "EHLO smtp1.clear.net.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268452AbTGLUSP (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:18:15 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 08:22:05 +1200 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: [Swsusp-devel] Re: Thoughts wanted on merging Software Suspend enhancements In-reply-to: <20030712201525.GB446@elf.ucw.cz> To: Pavel Machek Cc: swsusp-devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-id: <1058041325.2007.4.camel@laptop-linux> Organization: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <1057963547.3207.22.camel@laptop-linux> <20030712140057.GC284@elf.ucw.cz> <1058021722.1687.16.camel@laptop-linux> <20030712153719.GA206@elf.ucw.cz> <1058038701.2482.25.camel@laptop-linux> <20030712201525.GB446@elf.ucw.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 30 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 -- Nigel Cunningham 495 St Georges Road South, Hastings 4201, New Zealand You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. -- Romans 5:6, NIV. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/