Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:45:23 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl to disable reboot Message-ID: <200105212245.f4LMjN903195@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 May 2001 23:32:04 BST." <20010521233204.B64450@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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> Any user who can log on at a vty can remap any key to reboot the
> machine (try remapping "t" to reboot to annoy your firends ;-).
> The sysctl can only be enabeled by root, so I think it would be
> useful. A more useful sysctl might be one that prevented the
> remapping of the keyboard unless you were root.
That's a good point. A more sophisticated sysctl again would be one that
would prevent the loading of a new keymap which enabled rebooting where
the previous one did not.
cons.keymap.protected perhaps?
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