Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 18:56:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@miami.edu> Cc: The Administrator <admin@righi.df.unibo.it>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ctrl-alt-del Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980228185345.26963B-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980227172541.30338A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
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On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > There's also a kernel config option that will do it. I believe it's > called > > options BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET > > You can look for the extact name in the LINT kernel config file > (/sys/i386/conf/LINT). This is something entirely different. It merely controls how the CPU is reset when the system needs to do it. The CPU is still reset by an alternate mechanism if you have an broken keyboard controller. See /sys/i386/i386/vm_machdep.c. > Joe Clarke > > On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, The Administrator wrote: > > > > > > > > On my system, a i486 running FreeBSD-2.2.5, > > > the sequence of keys Ctrl-Alt-Canc causes a reboot, > > > if done on console. > > > The thing is that I am never at console, > > > and the console is avaliable for users who need to make > > > library research with netscape. > > > Well I would like to disable users to reboot > > > the system whenever they want with the 3 keys. > > > Does someone know how to do it? how to disable Ctrl-Alt-Canc ? > > > On Linux it was easy changing the configuration in > > > /etc/inittab, but there is not this file on BSD. > > > Someone could help me? > > > thanks > > > > Yes, you can disable this behavior. Take alook at the > > kbdcontrol(8) program. You can use it to dump the keymap and then load > > another. You will need to add a little code to reload the modified > > keyboard on every reboot. Maybe there is an option for this in rc.conf. > > You should take alook to see if it is already covered there. > > > > Basically you want to replace all occurences of 'boot' in the > > keymap with something like 'nop'. > > > > cheers, > > > > Adrian Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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