From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Apr 9 1: 0: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC5737B423 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 01:00:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f39803411958; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 01:00:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 01:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104090800.f39803411958@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: kern/26416: ctrl+alt+del --- normal user can reboot machine Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/26416; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav To: "David Xu" Cc: Subject: Re: kern/26416: ctrl+alt+del --- normal user can reboot machine Date: 09 Apr 2001 09:49:23 +0200 "David Xu" writes: > well, if a normal user can not execute "reboot" command, why does FBSD > allow him to press ctrl+alt+del? it is obviously inconsistent. No. There is a fundamental difference between the reboot(8) command and Ctrl+Alt+Del: the latter is only available to the user sitting at the console. > we have hacked syscons source code, added this feature, at least, it > works well, but unfortunatly, every time a cvsup will overwrite our > source code, I need re-patch it again, I hate to do it again and > again, so my request goes out. There are several documented ways of preventing cvsup from overwriting modified files (one of which is to use cvs instead). Also, I see no mention of a patch anywhere in your PR. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message