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From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
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In-Reply-To: <199505052220.QAA19824@trout.sri.MT.net> (message from Nate Williams on Fri, 5 May 1995 16:20:35 -0600)
Subject: Re: turning off ctrlaltdel
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>>>>> "Nate" == Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.mt.net> writes:

    >> Is it possible to turn off the soft reboot after pressing
    >> CTRLALTDEL?
    Nate> Yes.

    >> I couldn't find any options in the kernel for it, nor the code
    >> where it is handled :(

    Nate> It's handled by sending a signal to init.  The code which
    Nate> does it is in the console driver and in kern/kern_xxx.c.  To
    Nate> remove that functionality you can either modify your keymap
    Nate> to remove the keymapping (clean/easiest),

Easiest, but not necessarily the cleanest.  I might want to install
FreeBSD systems in a public user area (yes, this debate again) and
allow users to modify the keymap to their liking, via ~/.login, for
instance.  I'd want to disable assigning `boot' to any of the
keys, though.

    Nate> or else modify the kernel to ignore that keystroke.

Not the keystroke, just the action that goes with it.  Of course,
modifying the kernel to do this still doesn't ring true.  Kernel
config sounds nicer, though.

-- 
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA

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