[including -committers for political correctness]
On Friday, 17 September 1999 at 11:45:36 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:30:30 MST, Doug wrote:
>> Would not the 'panic' option in DDB be enough to handle this, or
>> am I missing something?
>
> He wanted a to be able to panic() a machine from console without being
> able to drop to DDB from console. I think this is because he believes
> that DDB is a security problem. :-)
Well, I'm missing something: the beginning of this thread, so this may
not be 100% relevant, but I've just had the situation. So:
I believe that panicing the system is also a security problem. But
sometimes people have hangs and just want to get a dump. Installing
DDB is overkill for this situation; how about a key attribute that
panics the system? It would probably make sense to have a sysctl or
some such to enable it.
Greg
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