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SubjectRe: SYSRQ accidents
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.
> >
> >
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