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To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: syscons.c sysctl for PC-Reboot Keys 
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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 12:28:36 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
>> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 02:36:28AM +0200, Pascal Pederiva wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > in case someone also has the desire to be able to turn the syscons
>> > CTRL-ALT-DELETE Reboot on and off without a kernel re-compile,
>> > this patch is for you.
>> 
>> Just disable the keycode in the syscons keyboard map.
>
>Perhaps we should just get rid of the kernel option?  It doesn't seem
>to have any advantages over changing the keyboard map.

This was discussed before. Some people want to disable the reboot key
combinataion PERMANENTLY.

The keymap can be changed by anyone who has access to one of vtys,
thus, some adminisrator worry that the user might just reload his own
keymap and will be able to reboot the machine.

Kazu

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