On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Rogers, Paul wrote about, Simple (???) Questions:
> Dear All
>
> I have a server which I am required to put in our computer room. To
> prevent others playing with it I wish to lock the console. I thought
> either
>
> start X with a blank screen screensaver
>
> or type exit to leave console at login prompt
>
> Ideally, because of the politics round here, I'd like to have the machine
> present a blank screen until AFTER the password is entered, and also to
> trap the three finger salute.
>
> 1. Is it possible to disable and/or trap the <CTRL><Alt><DEL>
> combination,such that the only way to shutdown is "shutdown -h" etc?
>
> 2. If X is running (with no applications and a blank screensaver) does
> this put much overhead on the machine?
>
> 3. Does any one know fo any console screen savers which both blank the
> screen and need to a password to unlock?
If the machine needs no physical attendance then why hang a keyboard and
video card/monitor at all, it must be a netwroked machine so remote logins
for spesifed users ie, admin, etc,.
I would even go as far as pulling out the video card, ust tell the bios it
has no video and no keyboard, it will boot linux without video, and
keyboard.
Of course you must make sure the machine will completly boot without
keystrokes first.
You as sysadmin could do other things like exclude gettys, and have
just one port open for ssh remote logins, but Ray and Lawson have explaned
all that.
> Many thanks
>
>
>
> Paul
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