From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 5:55: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.altayerdxb.net (unknown [195.229.53.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688B637B4C5 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 05:55:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from notesmail.altayerdxb.net (altayernotes [192.168.2.1]) by mail.altayerdxb.net (8.8.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id RAA20939; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 17:49:11 +0400 Received: from ho-ad-01.atg.altayer.com ([10.1.2.23]) by notesmail.altayerdxb.net (Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.2 (693.3 8-11-1998)) with SMTP id 4425698A.004D16AB; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:02:00 +0400 Received: from EXCHANGE1.atg.altayer.com ([10.1.2.30]) by ho-ad-01.atg.altayer.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.1600); Wed, 1 Nov 2000 17:53:29 +0400 Subject: RE: Securing boot -s and disabling CNTRL-ALT-DEL... Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:01:45 +0400 Message-ID: <2C9DB6D1616E784BB788F1CBAD33A2F3F523@EXCHANGE1.atg.altayer.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thread-Topic: Securing boot -s and disabling CNTRL-ALT-DEL... Thread-Index: AcBECx0xbCrDkTyeTIiFFaHPWQ6r1A== From: "Rino Mardo" content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 To: "Andy Farkas" , "Yifeng Xu" Cc: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Nov 2000 13:53:29.0906 (UTC) FILETIME=[1DA51120:01C0440B] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I agree it's too late. It should be in FreeBSD 5.x when it comes out. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [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 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 =20 Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message