Re: missing sysrq

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Sat, 02 Jun 2001 12:10:28 -0700


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Let me guess... you're using a RedHat system? RedHat, for some
> > idiotic reason, defaults to actively turning this off for you (and
> > they turn Stop-A off on SPARC, too.)
> >
>
> We turn it off by default because its a rather large dangerous security
> hole to leave around when a naiive user makes a basic installation. It is much
> better that it is enabled by someone who knows what they are doing and makes
> the decision to do so. Thats why we contributed the patch to make syrq runtime
> configurable
>
> Tools like powertweak even give you a nice gui interface for managing it.

Sure, if you know about it and know how to find it!

-hpa
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