Subject: Re: Disabling certain "Ctrl+Alt" keypresses
To: Phil Pereira <freeserver@wintellect.co.uk>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/30/2003 10:40:26
In message <20030430152217.09ec75ea.freeserver@wintellect.co.uk>, Phil Pereira 
writes:
>Fellow NetBSD-ers,
>
>Is there something I can configure/compile into the kernel to prevent a "Ctrl+
>Alt+del" keypress reboot?
>

Do you mean cntl+alt+esc, which drops you into the debugger -- 
NetBSD doesn't reboot on cntl+alt+del, in my experience.  I think you
can disable that by setting sysctl variable ddb.fromconsole to 0 -- to 
do it always, set it in /etc/sysctl.conf.

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