Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:01:45 +0400 From: "Rino Mardo" <rino@altayer.com> To: "Andy Farkas" <andyf@speednet.com.au>, "Yifeng Xu" <websoft@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Securing boot -s and disabling CNTRL-ALT-DEL... Message-ID: <2C9DB6D1616E784BB788F1CBAD33A2F3F523@EXCHANGE1.atg.altayer.com>
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I agree it's too late. It should be in FreeBSD 5.x when it comes out.
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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andy Farkas
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:47 PM
To: Yifeng Xu
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Securing boot -s and disabling CNTRL-ALT-DEL...
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
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
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