Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung(a)0pointer.de> said:
We generally default "secure". The thing is that with sysrq
you can
kill arbitrary processes if you have acecss to the console, and other
things, and that's just too security sensitive.
There are other useful things, like sync, remount read-only, reboot,
poweroff, that we already allow console users to do other ways by
default. Allowing them to do them through SysRq seems like a good idea
IMHO.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>