Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Sep 1998 13:47:16 +0000 | From | David Meyer <> | Subject | Re: SYSRQ accidents |
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Only reason I was using SAK is because minicom kept stalling and holding up tty when i exited. (kill -9 on other terminals didn't fix it)
Regards, Dave
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> SAK = Secure Authentication Key > > It *IS* the proper way to kill a tty. > > On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Nathan Hand wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, David Meyer wrote: > > > > > Am I the first one to aim for "k" and accidently hit "l" ? eh? I just > > > wanted to saK my current TTY, not destroy my system!!! Perhaps sysrq.c > > > could be made to confirm actions? Or better yet, it could be coded to > > > become more like the Windows NT Ctrl-Alt-Del screen. (Where you could > > > have a nice menu, and select stuff from and list and perhaps instead of > > > just killing all or all but init, you could pick a program/pid to kill.) > > > > > > I would volunteer to do it myself, but as I am still becoming familiar > > > with the Linux kernel code, it would take me a while :(. > > > > While you're at it, why not add voice recognition so you can > > say "My Voice Is My Password" into the soundblaster mike for > > authentication? > > > > SAK isn't supposed to be a neat toy. It's for developers. If > > you aren't going to be careful with it, don't enable it. The > > need for bloat is totally unwarranted. > > > > You definitely shouldn't be using SAK to terminate TTYs. The > > system has perfectly adequate existing methods to kill a TTY > > and SAK isn't the correct way of doing it. > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html
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