On 17/03/10 13:56, Patrick McHardy wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
The SYSRQ target will allow to remotely invoke sysrq on the local
machine. Authentication is by means of a pre-shared key that can
either be transmitted plaintext or digest-secured.
Lets deal with the other modules first while I make up my mind.
I'm happy to defend the security aspects of this module, if that's
what's concerning you.
I do know that there are quite a few people here who want to be able to
do remote sysrq -- they used to have a "crash trolley" consisting of a
PS/2 keyboard and a monitor. Unfortunately most of their new machines
only have USB and you can't hotplug a USB keyboard in many of the
circumstances for which you want to (for example) trigger a crash.
I guess that also means I'm happy to produce valid use-cases.
jch
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