sysrq is now completely disabled, it would be nice to maintain the ability to reboot etc

Bug #1025466 reported by Andy Whitcroft
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
procps (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
Unassigned
Quantal
Triaged
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

In fixing Bug #194676 all of the sysrq functionality was disabled. Some options are of low security impact but aid debugabilty of systems. It would be good to reenable what we can. See the original bug for suggested values in use by other distros.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: procps 1:3.3.3-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-4.4-generic 3.5.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-4-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.3-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 16 23:13:10 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
SourcePackage: procps
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-01-04 (194 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote :
Changed in procps (Ubuntu Precise):
importance: Undecided → High
no longer affects: procps (Ubuntu Precise)
Changed in procps (Ubuntu Quantal):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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