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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 08:00:33 -0500
To: Bart Matthaei <bart@dreamflow.nl>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
From: Allen Landsidel <all@biosys.net>
Subject: Re: reboot,ctrl+alt+del,shutdown
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At 08:12 AM 11/9/2001 +0100, you wrote:

>If someone has physical access to a machine, stopping him from
>rebooting with cntrl+alt+del wont do squat.. He can always flip the
>reset button, or unplug the cable. So I dont think disabling
>cntrl+alt+del is relevant in security. Therefor, its not a
>freebsd-security question. Imho, that is.

What about if they have access to just the keyboard and the machine is in a 
locked cabinet?  Would you consider it a valid security question then?


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