Tracy R Reed wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:26:59PM -0800, Stewart Stremler spake thusly: > > Ought not the operating system provide you with a way to always > > get a known-good-to-you login-prompt? Some way that user-code cannot > > intercept, detect, or redirect? > > And Linux does. alt-sysrq-k kills any programms running on the terminal > allowing the system to start up a fresh known-good login prompt for you.
Only if you have magic-sysrq-keys compiled in. This is often considered a security issue on production systems, as anyone can come up and wreak havock on your pruduction system w/o any sort of authentication whatsoever. Of course, this gets into the: if you can touch the console, you 0wn the system type scenario. -john -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
