On Wednesday 2010-03-17 15:43, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> >> 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. Well once there's kdboe, we can reevaluate and delete it again. Which brings me to the point: is kdboe even secured? -- 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
