Secure attention key for Linux login...

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:44:11AM +0000, Kevin Cowtan wrote:
 > Hi!
 > 
 > I'm worried about the possibility of spoofing login screens under 
 > Fedora to grab passwords. This has been addressed by the kernel 
 > developers a long time between 1996 and 2001, but doesn't appear to 
 > be set up, at least in FC2 (unless the key sequence is not 
 > ctrl-alt-pause).

Either a)
 
1) make sure sysctl kernel.sysrq is 1
2) ctrl-alt-sysrq-K

or b)
add

echo "control alt keycode 101 = SAK" | /bin/loadkeys

to the end of /etc/rc.sysinit as described in the document you
posted the link to.

		Dave