Thank you very much, Scott Kindley and Gavin Clark.
Here's the deal . . .
Because I chose high security, the ctrlaltdel in my /etc/inittab on the
firewall machine was specified with the -a option. I have now removed
that option, which will no doubt fix the problem.
(The other alternative of *having* an authorized user logged in doesn't
really solve my problem; the whole point is that this machine should not
normally have *any* users logged in, and it's somewhat physically
inaccessable; I don't want to every have to give it more than the
three-finger salute if I can help it.)
PS: The security concern doesn't bother me. I want this machine to have
high security w/r/t to the network, but I am completely unconcered about
physical security, to the point that the root password is taped to the
keyboard.
Scott Kindley wrote:
>
> > > I'd like for CTL+ALT+DEL to reboot it even if *nobody* is logged in.
> > >
> > > To make a a short story long . . .
> > >
> (snip)
> > >
> > > So . . .
> > >
> > > What controls this? How can I change it?
> > >
> > > --
> > > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> /etc/inittab
>
> excerpt from man inittab:
>
> # What to do at the "3 finger salute".
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -rf now
>
> Hope this helps.
> Scott
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