Using Slackware 10.0, Is there a way to set the system to _not_ reboot
when Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed at a login prompt? Ideally I'd like that
key sequence to do nothing at all on this machine.


Regards,
David P. Donahue
ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu

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cyber0ne wrote:
| Using Slackware 10.0, Is there a way to set the system to _not_ reboot
| when Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed at a login prompt? Ideally I'd like that
| key sequence to do nothing at all on this machine.
|
|
| Regards,
| David P. Donahue
| ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu
|

I believe you can just edit /etc/inittab. It has a line asking what you
would like to happen when that key combination is pressed.


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Perfect, thanks

Of course, is there a way to enact the change without rebooting? No
biggie, it would just be cool to know if there is.


Regards,
David P. Donahue
ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu

On 3 Jun 2005 19:29:44 -0700, "cyber0ne" <cyber0ne1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using Slackware 10.0, Is there a way to set the system to _not_ reboot
> when Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed at a login prompt? Ideally I'd like that
> key sequence to do nothing at all on this machine.

Rationale? At least Ctrl-Alt_Del properly shuts down machine, disable
that and people will hit RESET button, disable that and people will
power cycle. Put machine behind glass, people throws rocks at it )

Physical access to machine makes it vulnerable. And yes, you can
disable Ctrl-Alt-Del somewhere in startup scripts, just comment out
the action line.

--Grant.

cyber0ne wrote:

> Of course, is there a way to enact the change without rebooting?

# telinit q

Joe

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cyber0ne wrote:
> Perfect, thanks
>
> Of course, is there a way to enact the change without rebooting? No
> biggie, it would just be cool to know if there is.

As root
sed -i 's/^ca::/#ca::/g' /etc/inittab


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On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:37:21 -0700, cyber0ne wrote:

> Perfect, thanks
>
> Of course, is there a way to enact the change without rebooting? No
> biggie, it would just be cool to know if there is.
>
>
> Regards,
> David P. Donahue
> ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu



edit /etc/inittab , this line:

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -r now

Then "kill -HUP 1" makes init re-read the inittab file, after which it
takes appropriate action.