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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
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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
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