Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:54:26 +0100 | From | Adam Sampson <> | Subject | Re: Multiple Keyboards in 2.2/2.4? |
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:17:29PM -0400, James Simmons wrote: > > > On the console level their are complex issues as well. Consider a > > > system with 4 VTs attached to one machine. What if one person pressed > > > Ctrl-Alt-Del. Anyone can bring the system down when multiple people depend > > > on it. > > > > That particular one is a userspace issue; you can simply tell init not to do > > anything when Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed. (You'd also want to disable > > magic-sysrq for the same reason.) > > Don't forget about where printk goes to. Should it goe to every VT or just > one?
IMHO, it shouldn't go to any consoles; it should go to syslog, which can then be distributed in userspace.
> As for SysRq do users want the option to disable for everyone, have > it work for one VT or allow it for everyone? Do we want a all or nothing > policy?
Eventually? It would be nice to have it only available on some consoles, as you say, but for now it's safe to just disable it everywhere.
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