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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:01:45 +0400
From:      "Rino Mardo" <rino@altayer.com>
To:        "Andy Farkas" <andyf@speednet.com.au>, "Yifeng Xu" <websoft@yahoo.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Securing boot -s and disabling CNTRL-ALT-DEL...
Message-ID:  <2C9DB6D1616E784BB788F1CBAD33A2F3F523@EXCHANGE1.atg.altayer.com>

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I agree it's too late.  It should be in FreeBSD 5.x when it comes out.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andy Farkas
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:47 PM
To: Yifeng Xu
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Securing boot -s and disabling CNTRL-ALT-DEL...




On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Yifeng Xu wrote:

> I am thinking why we can not have a sysctl item to
> enable / disable it dynamicly by root like Linux to
> avoid recompiling, it's ugly to recompile kernel for
> such small function.

You are probably right.  I've always thought it odd that you can walk up
to a Unix (aka FreeBSD) console and press <ctrl-alt-del> and have it
reboot!  Perhaps the default condition should be to ignore it?

It is too late to lobby this "feature" for FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE.  Perhaps
for 5.0?

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 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au
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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/
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