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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-15 22:58:58 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-15 22:58:58 +0300 |
commit | 486088bc4689f826b80aa317b45ac9e42e8b25ee (patch) | |
tree | adf5847a6119d24da990d9e336f005c4a316e6be /Documentation/SAK.txt | |
parent | 52f6c588c77b76d548201470c2a28263a41b462b (diff) | |
parent | 43e5f7e1fa66531777c49791014c3124ea9208d8 (diff) | |
download | linux-486088bc4689f826b80aa317b45ac9e42e8b25ee.tar.xz |
Merge tag 'standardize-docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation format standardization from Jonathan Corbet:
"This series converts a number of top-level documents to the RST format
without incorporating them into the Sphinx tree. The hope is to bring
some uniformity to kernel documentation and, perhaps more importantly,
have our existing docs serve as an example of the desired formatting
for those that will be added later.
Mauro has gone through and fixed up a lot of top-level documentation
files to make them conform to the RST format, but without moving or
renaming them in any way. This will help when we incorporate the ones
we want to keep into the Sphinx doctree, but the real purpose is to
bring a bit of uniformity to our documentation and let the top-level
docs serve as examples for those writing new ones"
* tag 'standardize-docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (84 commits)
docs: kprobes.txt: Fix whitespacing
tee.txt: standardize document format
cgroup-v2.txt: standardize document format
dell_rbu.txt: standardize document format
zorro.txt: standardize document format
xz.txt: standardize document format
xillybus.txt: standardize document format
vfio.txt: standardize document format
vfio-mediated-device.txt: standardize document format
unaligned-memory-access.txt: standardize document format
this_cpu_ops.txt: standardize document format
svga.txt: standardize document format
static-keys.txt: standardize document format
smsc_ece1099.txt: standardize document format
SM501.txt: standardize document format
siphash.txt: standardize document format
sgi-ioc4.txt: standardize document format
SAK.txt: standardize document format
rpmsg.txt: standardize document format
robust-futexes.txt: standardize document format
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diff --git a/Documentation/SAK.txt b/Documentation/SAK.txt index 74be14679ed8..260e1d3687bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/SAK.txt +++ b/Documentation/SAK.txt @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ -Linux 2.4.2 Secure Attention Key (SAK) handling -18 March 2001, Andrew Morton +========================================= +Linux Secure Attention Key (SAK) handling +========================================= + +:Date: 18 March 2001 +:Author: Andrew Morton An operating system's Secure Attention Key is a security tool which is provided as protection against trojan password capturing programs. It @@ -13,7 +17,7 @@ this sequence. It is only available if the kernel was compiled with sysrq support. The proper way of generating a SAK is to define the key sequence using -`loadkeys'. This will work whether or not sysrq support is compiled +``loadkeys``. This will work whether or not sysrq support is compiled into the kernel. SAK works correctly when the keyboard is in raw mode. This means that @@ -25,64 +29,63 @@ What key sequence should you use? Well, CTRL-ALT-DEL is used to reboot the machine. CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE is magical to the X server. We'll choose CTRL-ALT-PAUSE. -In your rc.sysinit (or rc.local) file, add the command +In your rc.sysinit (or rc.local) file, add the command:: echo "control alt keycode 101 = SAK" | /bin/loadkeys And that's it! Only the superuser may reprogram the SAK key. -NOTES -===== +.. note:: -1: Linux SAK is said to be not a "true SAK" as is required by - systems which implement C2 level security. This author does not - know why. + 1. Linux SAK is said to be not a "true SAK" as is required by + systems which implement C2 level security. This author does not + know why. -2: On the PC keyboard, SAK kills all applications which have - /dev/console opened. + 2. On the PC keyboard, SAK kills all applications which have + /dev/console opened. - Unfortunately this includes a number of things which you don't - actually want killed. This is because these applications are - incorrectly holding /dev/console open. Be sure to complain to your - Linux distributor about this! + Unfortunately this includes a number of things which you don't + actually want killed. This is because these applications are + incorrectly holding /dev/console open. Be sure to complain to your + Linux distributor about this! - You can identify processes which will be killed by SAK with the - command + You can identify processes which will be killed by SAK with the + command:: # ls -l /proc/[0-9]*/fd/* | grep console l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Mar 18 00:46 /proc/579/fd/0 -> /dev/console - Then: + Then:: # ps aux|grep 579 root 579 0.0 0.1 1088 436 ? S 00:43 0:00 gpm -t ps/2 - So `gpm' will be killed by SAK. This is a bug in gpm. It should - be closing standard input. You can work around this by finding the - initscript which launches gpm and changing it thusly: + So ``gpm`` will be killed by SAK. This is a bug in gpm. It should + be closing standard input. You can work around this by finding the + initscript which launches gpm and changing it thusly: - Old: + Old:: daemon gpm - New: + New:: daemon gpm < /dev/null - Vixie cron also seems to have this problem, and needs the same treatment. + Vixie cron also seems to have this problem, and needs the same treatment. - Also, one prominent Linux distribution has the following three - lines in its rc.sysinit and rc scripts: + Also, one prominent Linux distribution has the following three + lines in its rc.sysinit and rc scripts:: exec 3<&0 exec 4>&1 exec 5>&2 - These commands cause *all* daemons which are launched by the - initscripts to have file descriptors 3, 4 and 5 attached to - /dev/console. So SAK kills them all. A workaround is to simply - delete these lines, but this may cause system management - applications to malfunction - test everything well. + These commands cause **all** daemons which are launched by the + initscripts to have file descriptors 3, 4 and 5 attached to + /dev/console. So SAK kills them all. A workaround is to simply + delete these lines, but this may cause system management + applications to malfunction - test everything well. |