Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 17:16:42 +0100 (MET) From: security@giga.lss.cp.philips.com (Walter Belgers for mailing lists) To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stopping users from rebooting with ctr-alt-del Message-ID: <199612201616.RAA07474@giga.lss.cp.philips.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961220072039.8768A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> from Snob Art Genre at "Dec 20, 96 07:22:54 am"
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Snob Art Genre writes: > > > > > Why would you need use ctrl-alt-del to reboot the machine ? > > 1. it's not a shutdown (it doesn't resync, anyhow) > > I believe this is incorrect. Indeed it nicely syncs disks. > I think ctrl-alt-del syncs buffers and otherwise shuts down the machine > "nicely". I may be wrong. No, you're right. At a student society I set up a FreeBSD system and we found students hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL to get Windows (they didn't understand the login: prompt, sheesh) so we remapped reboot to CTRL-ALT-R. We wanted to keep the option in case the system was crashed to an extent that logging in was impossible but CTRL-ALT-R would still work. E.g. when we were still running 1.1.5.1 and switching virtual consoles when X was shutting down would nuke the screen. Walter. -- Ir. W.H.B. Belgers, Internet Security Specialist phone: +31 40 2782753 Origin IT Syst.Man. /Nederland bv, Bldg VN-513 email: fax: +31 40 2784697 P.O. Box 218, 5600 MD Eindhoven, Netherlands W.Belgers@nl.cis.philips.com http://www.cis.philips.com/home/W.Belgers http://www.IAEhv.nl/users/gigawalt
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