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SubjectRe: SYSRQ accidents


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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