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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