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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!206.127.64.132!helena.MT.net!not-for-mail From: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ctrl+Alt+Del reboot Date: 28 May 1997 18:11:38 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5mhsgq$650$1@helena.MT.net> References: <338C629F.41C67EA6@eunet.cz> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test57 (27 Apr 97) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41768 According to Martin Machacek <martin@eunet.cz>: >Does anybody know how to prevent Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot the machine. I >know that console access should be treated as root access, but the >possibility to be able to reboot a machine without even being logged in >makes it much easier for anybody to screw things up. Install a new keymap which removes the 'boot' keyword from the map. Ex: # alt # scan cntrl alt alt cntrl lock # code base shift cntrl shift alt shift cntrl shift state # ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... 082 fkey60 '0' '0' '0' '0' '0' '0' '0' N 083 del '.' '.' '.' '.' '.' boot boot N ... Nate -- nate@sri.com.NOSPAM | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations. work #: (406) 457-9000 | nate@mt.sri.com.NOSPAM | An unfeatured document is a bug. home #: (406) 443-7063 | - John Polstra