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Date:      Mon, 9 Apr 2001 01:00:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/26416: ctrl+alt+del --- normal user can reboot machine
Message-ID:  <200104090800.f39803411958@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/26416; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To: "David Xu" <davidx@viasoft.com.cn>
Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: kern/26416: ctrl+alt+del --- normal user can reboot machine
Date: 09 Apr 2001 09:49:23 +0200

 "David Xu" <davidx@viasoft.com.cn> writes:
 > well,  if a normal user can not execute "reboot" command,  why does FBSD
 > allow him to press ctrl+alt+del? it is obviously inconsistent.
 
 No.  There is a fundamental difference between the reboot(8) command
 and Ctrl+Alt+Del: the latter is only available to the user sitting at
 the console.
 
 > we have hacked syscons source code, added this feature, at least, it
 > works well, but unfortunatly, every time a cvsup will overwrite our
 > source code, I need re-patch it again, I hate to do it again and
 > again, so my request goes out.
 
 There are several documented ways of preventing cvsup from overwriting
 modified files (one of which is to use cvs instead).
 
 Also, I see no mention of a patch anywhere in your PR.
 
 DES
 -- 
 Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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