Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:46:49 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Yifeng Xu <websoft@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Securing boot -s and disabling CNTRL-ALT-DEL... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011012342300.18624-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20001101122508.28095.qmail@web1701.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Yifeng Xu wrote:
> I am thinking why we can not have a sysctl item to
> enable / disable it dynamicly by root like Linux to
> avoid recompiling, it's ugly to recompile kernel for
> such small function.
You are probably right. I've always thought it odd that you can walk up
to a Unix (aka FreeBSD) console and press <ctrl-alt-del> and have it
reboot! Perhaps the default condition should be to ignore it?
It is too late to lobby this "feature" for FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE. Perhaps
for 5.0?
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Andy Farkas
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Speednet Communications
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