John Haxby wrote: > 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. It seems useful to me, I'm mainly wondering whether there's a chance that we'll get kdboe support in the forseeable future, which would make this pretty much obsolete I guess. I also want to wait a bit to see whether there are any comments from other developers since I guess most haven't looked at this module so far. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
