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SubjectRe: Clear reboot?
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> If this wasn't done correctly, within a day or so something would
> appear on bugtraq on how to remotely reboot linux boxes. Effective
> DoS or whatever. True, you could load a password via sysctl, but many
> people wouldn't. I just don't think this is such a great idea...

Of course it would need to be implemented in this way: initially
disabled, enabled only by writing a password into sysctl. If you want
to do it _right_, require an SHA hash over the current time (perhaps
in 10 sec granularity, or 8 sec because that's easy to implement :-)
and the sysctl-set password. (SHA is in the kernel already.)

Olaf


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