Linux 2.4.2 Secure Attention Key (SAK) handling
-18 March 2001, Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
+18 March 2001, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
An operating system's Secure Attention Key is a security tool which is
provided as protection against trojan password capturing programs. It
/dev/console opened.
Unfortunately this includes a number of things which you don't
- actually want killed. This is because these appliccaitons are
+ actually want killed. This is because these applications are
incorrectly holding /dev/console open. Be sure to complain to your
Linux distributor about this!