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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!olivetti.nl!paulz From: paulz@olivetti.nl (Paul van der Zwan) Subject: Re: How to disable alt-crtl-del == reboot Message-ID: <DpwBDw.IG0@olivetti.nl> Sender: usenet@olivetti.nl (News owner) Organization: Olivetti Nederland B.V. References: <Dpsv3F.47q@olivetti.nl> <fred-1404961540210001@appenzell.lightside.net> <4ksas3$98t@ghost.whirlpool.com> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 08:53:56 GMT Lines: 28 In article <4ksas3$98t@ghost.whirlpool.com>, Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com> wrote: >In article <fred-1404961540210001@appenzell.lightside.net>, >Fred Condo <fred@lightside.net> wrote: >> >>Anyone with physical access can push the reset button, so this is pointless. > >Who would leave the reset button connected on such a machine? >Still, I would say he meant, "So any DOS weenie can't three finger salute >my cool FreeBSD box when they can't figure out what it is doing." > That is what I meant, the machine has no reset button, so that is no problem. Pulling the powercable out or switching the thing off can be a problem, but to be really honest , the problem is I have a FreeBSD and a Windows NT box standing side by side. When the screenlocker on the NT box kicks in you can unlock it by alt-ctrl-del and then enter your password. It happened more than once that I pushed the magic keys on the FreeBSD box to get out of the screensaver ( ususally followed by some words the Comm. Dec. Act would not approve ;-) But whatever the reason, it should be possible to disable such an option. Paul -- Paul van der Zwan paulz@olivetti.nl Olivetti Nederland B.V. paulzn@olivetti.nl (NeXT-mail)