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
i like to remap ctrl-alt-del to go to runlevel 1,
i set:
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/init 1
i find it quite useful if something in startup hangs i can just go
straight to runlevel 1 or if something crashes i can go there easily too,
much faster then a reboot for me(it takes my machine a full 2
On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote:
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.
, 2000 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote:
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
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 05:45:42PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
But.. you have an open root shell! That someone presses ctrl-alt-del is
the least of your worries, they could simply enter shutdown -r now.
Or rm -rf /. Or echo 'toor::0:0::/: /etc/passwd. Or
I guess I had in the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in
/etc/shutdown.allow, none?)
Simply don't use the -a switch then.
I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without
the -a switch it's
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 03:13:11PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without
the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?)
you could put one of the system account names in /etc/shutdown.allow
say bin who
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 08:27:20PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown
has -rwxr-xr-x perms?
Why not ? If you aren't root you can execute it but it won't
do anything useful..
Ummm...yup. And with that I have met my quota for dumb
Hi!
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote:
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?)
May I quote the man page[1]?
[...]
If shutdown is called with the -a argument (add
Bob Bernstein wrote:
snip
I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without
the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?)
In other words you want to completely disable the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo? I'm
not sure if this would work, but perhaps
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:35:12PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
(if you want to see something interesting though try this: fakeroot
/sbin/shutdown -r now)
The hard drive spun, a beep was emitted, and the process ground to a
stunning halt. I am deciphering the error messages now. g All kidding
I changed my line to
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo Won't work
(The line echo outputs is changed different, but means the same, it's
dutch..)
Ron Rademaker
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote:
Bob Bernstein wrote:
snip
I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del.
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
or should another command be substituted for /sbin/shutdown, and if so, which
one?
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