On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Mario Torre wrote:
> >
> > Press CTRL-ALT-DEL, there you go. ;-)
>
> Yes, there is a way to avoid that?
Sure, like Douglas says ctrl-alt-del's action is defined in /etc/inittab
>
> What is security? Why there were 3 release of the usermode package, as they
> allowed a normal user to do "shutdown -h now", and now they are fixed, but
> there is the ability to shutdown the system anyway with poeroff or
> CTRL-ALT-DEL?
>
> I know these are stupid questions, but I wish to know the answers.
>
> The problem of the poweroff tool is not important, it was only something I
> noticed yesterday.
>
> But that gives me a lot of things to think about...
>
> There is no way to avoid a shutdown if you have access to the console?
>From software point of view sure it's possible to disallow shutdown by
normal user but one can only do so much on the software-side - if you have
access to the console you very likely have access to the power cords too
:) Unless of course you arrange some special locked cabinet for the box
etc so that only mouse, keyboard and monitor cables are accessible.
>
> And if I must take my system running, because it is doing some kind of
> calculation, and arrives some other user, and make a CTRL-ALT-DEL, I lose all
> my work?
By default, yes..
- Panu -
>
> Brrr....
>
> I will keep my system at home tonight ;)
>
> Mario
>
> P.S. for Panu Matilainen
>
> You're right, and RedHat makes a great work for all the 98% of cases.
> This question was due to a bad lonely neuron of my mind that was dying of
> loneliness! ;)
> See You!
>
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