Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Oct 2004 03:24:20 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Configurable Magic Sysrq |
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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 ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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