On Tuesday 12 Apr 2005 11:37 am, sanjay choudhury wrote: > hi! > you could prevent users other than root from issuing > ctl-alt-del. > 1. login as root. > 2. touch /etc/shutdown.allow. > Keeping this file blank prevents non-root user from > issuing ctl-alt-del. you could add userids in this > file to allow those userids with ctl-alt-del > permission. > 3. edit /etc/inittab . > check the line ca:ctl-alt-del and confirm the shutdown > command used there has '-a' switch on.
Excellent! I have followed the above processed and whenever a non-root user press [ctrl+alt+del] it says *shutdown: unauthorised user* . THANKS Sanjay > > Otherwise you could prevent all non-root users from > accessing the console/virtual terminal. > > --- "J.Bakshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > > > in linux pressing [crtl+alt+del] restart the > > machine. > > this can be disabled from /etc/inittab. but is it > > possible to disable this > > option for all user *except root* ? > > > > if possible pls let me know. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with the body > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
