On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Michael R. Batchelor wrote:
> Not exactly a Mandrake specific question, but there's lots of good advice here.
>
> We've just moved one of our servers from WinNT to Mandrake 5.3 this
> weekend. No problems with desktop's etc., since the machine is basically
> just a big file and print server. However, what we've discovered is that
> *EVERYBODY* is used to walking up to the server bank and punching the
> Ctrl-Alt-Del combination to get a prompt on the screen. That's fine for the
> servers which are still NT boxes, but this Linux box proceeds to reboot,
> causing problems for everyone.
>
> I looked over the man pages for reboot and ctrlaltdel, but didn't see an
> obvious way to disable the default behavior. It seems the only choices are
> a hard reboot or a soft reboot, but no choice to disable rebooting? What am
> I missing?
man shutdown.allow
I suppose. /etc/shutdown.allow is a text file that contains an entry for
every user which is allowed to shutdown the system.
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