From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 4:47: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C8937B4CF for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 04:47:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA1Ckne19663; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:46:50 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:46:49 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Yifeng Xu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Securing boot -s and disabling CNTRL-ALT-DEL... In-Reply-To: <20001101122508.28095.qmail@web1701.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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? -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message