Re: [PATCH]: Add Network Sysrq Support

On 06/21/2011 07:26 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:

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I'm thinking on a situation where we leave the systems with this enabled
and then an ordinary user starts pinging the network guessing the hexa to
cause reboots.
  

Good point Flavio, but that's *exactly* why I wrote this in single-shot
mode.  I really think the code might be a bit too risky for most people
to deploy in production environments.  It's too risky for me to let
someone ping and ping and ping until they luckily hit the magic number
and figure out how to bring *all* of my systems down.  What are the
chances that a lab admin is smart enough to set the password to
different numbers across different machines in a single lab?

I see your point.  I liked the patch because of the simplicity but
oh well, if we care that much about the security, then in the end
we will have something similar to what the xt_SYSRQ does already.

fbl