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Date:      Sun, 5 Aug 2001 14:42:28 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Cc:        Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, Pascal Pederiva <freebsd@paped.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PATCH: syscons.c sysctl for PC-Reboot Keys
Message-ID:  <20010805144228.A94134@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <200108050402.NAA22213@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>; from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:02:05PM %2B0900
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0108042323550.21943-100000@TMA-1.brad-x.com> <200108050402.NAA22213@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

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On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:02:05PM +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
> I don't see much need to add a sysctl for this, because I cannot
> imagine in what situation you want to turn on and off the reboot key
> on the fly. The system administrator wants to disable the reboot key
> entirely, or leave it enabled.
> 
> But, if many people say they need it, perhaps we should add it...

What I think we need is a sysctl which controls users ability to
change the keymap. I keep meaning to impliment something which does
has three modes:

	1) All users can set the keymap to anything.
	2) Only root can change the keymap.
	3) Ordinary users can change the mapping of "normal" keys
	but cannot change reboot/panic/etc. Root can still change
	these.

	David.

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