[sclug] Disable 'Ctrl-Alt-Del' reboots

[Alex Butcher]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Neil Owens wrote:

>
>> Alex Wrote:
>> FC3 has C-A-D enabled by default.
>
> But that's a desktop system, by default - I mean, that's what it's 'aimed'
> at.

CentOS 3 (and by extension, RHEL3) is the same.

> I'm just wondering why a 'server' based system, - IPCop falls into this
> category -  doesn't have it disabled by default when no-one's logged in.
>
> Maybe I've missed something.  Maybe they did.

I'll admit it does seem a little incongruous with RH's decision to compile
in magic SysRq, but disable it during boot. OTOH, C-A-D is pretty safe (the
worst possible outcome is a DoS until someone notices, and only then if
you've passworded GRUB or similar).

> Neil

Best Regards,
Alex.
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