On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:33:42PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote:
> > 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... > > No, it certainly won't. When this line is commented out, ctr-alt-del does > nothing. I am finding the latter to be correct here. The '-a' arg to shutdown strikes me as not very useful, since the presence of a root login will circumvent whatever is in /etc/shutdown.allow. It would seem to me that it is precisely _when_ root is logged in that an inadvertant or unauthorized ctrlaltdel reboot would be most unwelcome. I suppose the moral of the story is, "Don't leave root logins unattended." (But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in /etc/shutdown.allow, "none"?) -- Bob Bernstein | As for systems that are not like Unix, at | such as MSDOS, Windows, the Macintosh, Esmond, R.I., USA | VMS, and MVS, supporting them is | usually so much work that it is better | if you don't. -- Richard | Stallman "GNU Coding Standards"