[sclug] Disable 'Ctrl-Alt-Del' reboots
John Stumbles
john at stumbles.org.uk
Wed Feb 2 13:41:54 UTC 2005
Alex Butcher wrote:
> I was not pointing out that DoS by C-A-D was a serious threat, just that it
> seems incongruous to have C-A-D enabled, but Magic SysRq disabled. I guess
> the differentiator is that Magic SysRq can cause filesystem damage (e.g.
> SysRq+O or SysRq+B without a SysRq+U first) whereas C-A-D shouldn't.
Pray what is Magic SysRq? (Inferring from the context above I'm not
trying it at home :-)
And talking about masonic handshakes, anyone know if it's possible to
change the behaviour of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in X?
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