You can enable the magic sysrq keys which will give you a key combo to reboot, 
plus a lot of other useful functionally. 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

-Brian

> On May 13, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Mathew Snyder <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> We have a project that has recently gone through an SCA and one of the 
> findings is that Ctrl-Alt-Del is enabled. Understandably, this could cause 
> trouble. Although, since the list of people with access to the consoles that 
> the finding is on is limited, I don't see it as a proper security issue.
> 
> Additionally, it is useful for when our systems (all but a handful are VMs) 
> are misbehaving and need a little boot to the head.
> 
> What we'd like to do is change the key combination to something less obvious 
> so we can retain our ability to restart the servers softly if necessary while 
> also closing this finding.
> 
> 
> -Mathew
> 
> "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." 
> - God; Futurama
> 
> "We'll get along much better once you accept that you're wrong and neither am 
> I." - Me
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