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SubjectRe: Speaking of SysRQ...
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 jam@ans.net wrote:

> Tuomas Heino wrote:
> >
> > But is it secure? as in can you disable it while online / make activating
> > it require some kinda authorization? ;)
>
> I might be stating something completely obvious here, but if we're
> talking about "Magic SysReq", isn't "you have to have console access to
> the machine" secure "enough"?

well the keyboard and the monitor may still be "far" from the 'puter...
and the 'puter may be in public use... so being able to block magic
sysreq on a system without rebooting to a kernel without it would be cool...
(block as in still have it behind some "top secret" run-time
configurable thing... as in root-accessable /proc config thingy or something)
[and for those few who think about control-alt-del: init can secure that one easily]

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