On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to > simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: > > # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
i am uncertain what control-alt-delete will do if you comment this out, it might revert to DOS/Windows behaviour of rebooting the machine uncleanly... > or should another command be substituted for /sbin/shutdown, and if so, which > one? echo root > /etc/shutdown.allow and leave inittab alone. that way control-alt-delete will only work if root is logged into the console. (that is what the -a switch to shutdown does) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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