Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 01:38:24 +1100 (EST) From: Sean Winn <sean@perky.gothic.net.au> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stopping users from rebooting with ctr-alt-del Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961221013041.3576A-100000@perky.gothic.net.au> In-Reply-To: <199612201154.LAA03542@pir.net>
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Just a simple question concerning the use of Ctrl-Alt-Del; would it be possible to only make the reboot usable only if it was root logged into the currently visible vty? Not being that cluey on the internals of the FreeBSD console internals, it's more a curiosity question than anything. A definitive "yes/no/damned if I know" from those who *are* capable of answering would save a relative novice hacker from wasting time :) I can already see a nice simple problem, in that it would only work after login...if you need to shutdown because you can't login for some reason (exhausted swap space because of a nasty process?), then this makes things difficult...but it should help machines in public places around people who have too much curiosity. -- Sean Winn email: sean@gothic.net.au, sean@cynet.net.au All opinions valued at $0.02, and not subject to inflation.
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