In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wednesday 16 July 2003 09:44, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: >> Hi, small question. >> How can i deny a CTRL-ALT-DEL when i am on the login screen ? >> This question because I have a server and some technician who had to >> work on another system had chosen the wrong keyboard !! >> So, the debian was on it's login screen ant it rebooted and I don't >> want this to happen again in the future. > >In the file /etc/inittab, you will find this around line 32: ># What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. >ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now > >Comment out the second line and nothing will happen when CTRL-ALT-DEL is >pressed.
Alternatively edit /etc/shutdown.allow. Through this file you can configure who is allowed to use ctrl-alt-del and who isn't. If none of the users in /etc/shutdown.allow are logged in to a console, then shutdown will refuse to act. See "man shutdown". Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
