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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Configurable Magic Sysrq
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> > Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> > >
> > > I know about a few people who would like to use some functionality of
> > > the Magic Sysrq but don't want to enable all the functions it provides.
> >
> > That's a new one. Can you tell us more about why people want to do such a
> > thing?
> For example in a computer lab at the university the admin don't want
> to allow users to Umount/Kill (mainly to make it harder for users to
> screw up the computer) but wants to allow SAK/Unraw.
> Another (actually not so legitimate ;) example is that in e.g. SUSE
> kernels sysrq is turned off by default (some people are afraid that it
> could be a security issue) so most users have it turned off and hence
> when the computer deadlocks, there's no debugging output.

OK, fair enough. I'll merge the patch if you talk suse into enabling
sysrq-T and sysrq-P and sysrq-M by default ;)
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