On Tuesday 31 March 2009 00:32:28 Bill Nottingham wrote: > Alexander Boström (abo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Yes, if Alt-SysRq-K does everything Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does, and more, > > then perhaps that should be enabled by default instead? > > > > Any security implications of enabling SysRq by default? > > Anyone at the keyboard can immediately reboot the box without any > syncing, clean shutdown, or authorization at all. > > Aside from that, it's perfectly secure. :) > > Bill Anyone at the keyboard can also pull the wire (usually). For the cases where this isn't the desired behavior (e.g. kiosk), it can be switched off. :) I would be muck more concerned if there are some problems like unlocking a locked session or similar. But if it kills all the processes on the same vt there should be no problems like this, should they? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
