Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> writes: > On Sunday, March 29, 2015 12:23:00 PM lee wrote: >> Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> writes: >> What's the last time you pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del and it actually worked? >> It's a legacy thing from times when freezes/crashes were common and when >> it did work and was useful. >> >> Nowadays, when you're pressing it, usually nothing happens anyway >> because the machine is down to where you have to press the reset button >> or to turn off the power (if you can't log in with ssh). When the >> machine still works, Ctrl+Alt+Del also works, which means that the >> default does nothing but create a security hole. > > On Linux now there's the Magic SysRq Key feature for that.
I always can't remember which keys to press with that, so I have it disabled. And when the keyboard is unresponsive, it won't work. >> So how can we have this default changed? > > Somebody posted that on this very thread. Replace the ctrlaltdel entry on > inittab with /bin/false. Oh I mean the *default*. We should not need to change the inittab to have it disabled by default. Isn't commenting out the whole line sufficient? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
