Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:09:48 +0100 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Configurable Magic Sysrq |
| |
> > > It's not about the kernel size but about allowing user to invoke just > >some functions and not the other (see my other mail). > > That's like giving a user m$ windows without the ctrl+alt+del functionality, > if you omit considering that either os has a different level of stability. Yes. Some of the sysrq are considered insecure - for example OOM kill, which was added lately, can be used to kill some process and I could imagine security implications from cleverly killing syslogd (or some other important process) by it. OTOH some other functionalities are useful and safe...
> But I like the idea. Maybe a bitmask which can be set via /proc/sys/.../xxx? And that is exactly what the patch does ;).
Honza
-- Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> SuSE CR Labs - 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/
| |