My guess is that it would be mainly for a public machine like one in an internet
cafe or at a trade show. You would not want people restarting X, or getting to a
console. I know that KDE has a framework for locking down public machines as
well, but I'm not sure how to use it.

Jesse

Quoting Jason Louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Now I'm curious, why you would want to disable this?  This is basically a
> very 
> quick way to logout.  The "harder" equivalent would be rebooting the system,
> 
> (which has to be done at sometime.)
> 
> Also would CTRL-ALT-F1 to CTRL-ALT-F6 have an effect you don't want also?  
> 
> I'm just think that restoring a system with these disabled would be a bit of
> 
> a work.
> 
> On May 6, 2004 11:09, Curtis Sloan wrote:
> > > I picked up something about CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE restarting your X.
> > > Now (I wanna do difficult as always) how do I turn that off ?
> 
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