From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 11:02:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA08278 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:02:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.tribe.com ([205.184.207.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA08273 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:02:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.tribe.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA04208 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:01:32 -0800 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199512071901.LAA04208@bubba.tribe.com> Subject: Re: Why not to login as root, etc. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:01:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <199512062037.NAA15055@intele.net> from "Barnacle Wes" at Dec 6, 95 01:36:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Yes, but if shutdown is unavailable....the system is locked up....perhaps > > ctrl-alt-del is a better option than turning off the power altogether or > > hitting the reset button. "Back channel" communications among new users > > (new to Unix & FreeBSD) suggest that quite a few of us have depended on > > ctrl-alt-del until we figured out shutdown, and with no ill effects. As > > someone wrote to me, "You don't even have to be logged in as root!" > > This, to me, is a really good reason to disable this feature. Do you > really want anyone who walks by to be able to reboot your machine? > I don't. I can't keep my screensaver active for my cat walking on the > keyboard, pushing the mouse around, and stomping on the mouse buttons. > What if she could reboot the computer, too? Uck! Believe me, she'd > learn how to do it! Just thought I'd point out that Linux has a "/sbin/ctlatldel" program which gets executed when ctl-alt-del is pressed, so at least it's configurable... might this be an option for FreeBSD? -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com