From: Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Secure attention key Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 14:55:10 -0400
I wonder if there is any demand for this. There should be. ;) For
those that don't know, a secure attention key ensures that you are talking to
a legitimate login process, instead of someone's password stealer. I've
patched keyboard.c to do a vhangup on the current VC when the secure attention
key sequence is entered. I had used ctrl-atl-esc, but heard from a friend here
that Gateway PC's use that as a jump into CMOS setup hot-key. I'm currently
using ctrl-alt-space, which shouldn't conflict with PC builtin hotkeys, or X
server stuff, etc. I have been thinking of using ctrl-alt-enter, but I am not
sure whether the enter mentioned in the keyboard table in keyboard.c is the
main, or the numeric enter key, or both. I've also thought of ctrl-alt-ins,
but that's kinda cheezy, and on my PC (an Everex 486), dangerously close to
ctrl-alt-del. One slip of the fingers, and I'll really have a secure attention
key. ;). It's probably the same with many other PC's.
So, anyone want this feature?
Any ideas what to bind it to?
btw, I'm losing my net access May 12, until summer, or possibly fall.