Disregard my last question. I have verified that the Print Screen key still
serves as the SysRq key despite not being labeled as such.

-Mathew

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at
all." - God; Futurama

"We'll get along much better once you accept that you're wrong and neither
am I." - Me


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Mathew Snyder <[email protected]>wrote:

> This might be a more elegant solution. I don't see SysRq on my keyboard,
> though. Is it always the Print Screen key?
>
> -Mathew
>
> "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at
> all." - God; Futurama
>
> "We'll get along much better once you accept that you're wrong and
> neither am I." - Me
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Brian Davidson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> You can enable the magic sysrq keys which will give you a key combo to
>> reboot, plus a lot of other useful functionally.
>>
>> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>> On May 13, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Mathew Snyder <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> We have a project that has recently gone through an SCA and one of the
>> findings is that Ctrl-Alt-Del is enabled. Understandably, this could cause
>> trouble. Although, since the list of people with access to the consoles
>> that the finding is on is limited, I don't see it as a proper security
>> issue.
>>
>> Additionally, it is useful for when our systems (all but a handful are
>> VMs) are misbehaving and need a little boot to the head.
>>
>> What we'd like to do is change the key combination to something less
>> obvious so we can retain our ability to restart the servers softly if
>> necessary while also closing this finding.
>>
>>
>> -Mathew
>>
>> "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at
>> all." - God; Futurama
>>
>> "We'll get along much better once you accept that you're wrong and
>> neither am I." - Me
>>
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