On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:49:34AM +0100, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > Le 2002.02.15 02:29, Bob Thibodeau a ?crit : > >It's more secure than suid, but anyone with physical access to the > >machine can stop it. > > Anyway, someone with physical access can poweroff the machine :-) >
Agreed, it's a pretty moot point. here are the lines from /etc/inittab # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now # Action on special keypress (ALT-UpArrow). kb::kbrequest:/sbin/shutdown -h now iirc, I had to play with some setting to get ctrl-alt-end map to kbrequest <see parentheses above>, but it was so long ago I don't remember what. Bob