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From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: swsusp-devel <swsusp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Swsusp-devel] Re: Thoughts wanted on merging Software Suspend enhancements
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 08:22:05 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058041325.2007.4.camel@laptop-linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030712201525.GB446@elf.ucw.cz>

Hi again.

On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 08:15, Pavel Machek wrote:
> No, you don't understand.
> 
> Magic SysRq is well known mechanism for torturing running
> kernel. Kernel hackers have it enabled, security-consious people have
> it disabled, and it is /proc-tweakable. It also works in cases like
> "the only keyboard on serial terminal", etc. 

Ah okay. So the security by obscurity bit was wrong, but the general
idea of SysRq-Esc was right?

Regards,

Nigel

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Nigel Cunningham
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Christ died for the ungodly.
	-- Romans 5:6, NIV.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-12 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-11 22:45 Thoughts wanted on merging Software Suspend enhancements Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-12 14:00 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-12 14:55   ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-12 15:37     ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-12 19:38       ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-12 20:15         ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-12 20:22           ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2003-07-12 22:52             ` [Swsusp-devel] " Pavel Machek
2003-07-13  2:17               ` Jan Rychter
2003-07-12 20:20       ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-12 22:56         ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-13 13:27         ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 19:23           ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-13 19:29             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 18:17       ` [Swsusp-devel] " Michael Frank
2003-07-13 19:29         ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-12 22:34   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-07-12 22:51     ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-13 13:35       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 19:31         ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-13 21:01           ` [Swsusp-devel] " Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-13 21:09             ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-13 21:21               ` Jan Rychter
2003-07-14  1:54               ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14  3:41                 ` Michael Frank
2003-07-14 13:11                 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-14 17:30                   ` Jan Rychter
2003-07-14 18:44                     ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 20:12                 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-07-14 20:18                   ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-14 20:30                     ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 20:43                       ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-14 21:20                         ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 20:41                     ` Vojtech Pavlik
     [not found]                       ` <20030714230219.GB11283@elf.ucw.cz>
2003-07-15  6:36                         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-07-15 10:08                           ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-15 11:11                             ` Markus Gaugusch
2003-07-15 11:31                               ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]             ` <Pine.LNX.4.53.0307132305500.1090@phoenix.kerstin.at>
2003-07-14  1:15               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14  1:26                 ` Lyle Seaman
2003-07-14  1:43                   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14  1:55                     ` Lyle Seaman
2003-07-14  1:57                       ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14  2:17                       ` Lyle Seaman
2003-07-14 20:10           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-07-14 20:21             ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 20:29               ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-14 20:32                 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 20:38                   ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-15 16:23         ` Kent Borg
2003-07-15 16:27           ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-15 17:27           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-15 19:05             ` Nigel Cunningham

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