On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Ken Hornstein wrote:

> >> Perhaps I'm missing why it is such a great idea for random people to
> >> be able to arbitrarily reboot a machine.
> >
> >I have had NT weenies *accidentally* reboot FreeBSD and Linux servers
> >this way. Ctrl-Alt-Del is a bad idea.
> 
> I don't see why we shouldn't make this possible, but leave the default
> at "off".  I think that some people like to be able to reboot their
> desktops simply.

A sysctl like 'machdep.ctrl_alt_delete' on i386 sounds like a reasonable
idea to me, anyway.