In message <200101051844.f05Iife25264@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writes
:
>In message <20010105194541.A6499@antioche.lip6.fr>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>>> Yes.  I expected the console-abort-hook that is very useful to have
>
>>Haaaa, you mean ctrl-alt-esc then !
>
>I'm not convinced that there's a substantial advantage to selecting a
>different hook than everyone else uses.  ;)

Well, there is one advantage:  when I'm running vmware, I need to use 
that sequence to log in to guest Win2000 machines.  (Btw -- on Win2000, 
the three-fingered salute is the "trusted path" -- something that's 
guaranteed to get you to the real OS, as opposed to, say, some program 
that is emulating login on a tty line.  Trusted path is a very useful 
concept, though it requires careful thought and engineering to be 
usable.)

Of course, I have used it, successfully, from my BSD/OS laptop speaking 
X to a linux/vmware system.  Now I just have to figure out why that 
didn't reboot...


		--Steve Bellovin