Re: Possible flaw in XFree?

From: mdonnelly (mdonnellyat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 11:29:29 PDT

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    On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Patrick van Zweden wrote:
    
    > Forget to cc the list
    > 
    > This is just normal behaviour. You can disable this behaviour within the
    > Xfree Configuration file. (Option "DontZap" "boolean" ).
    > So there is nothing about it. It's just for the user/admin to configure X
    > so it doesn't react on the key combination. If you consider this as i flaw
    > i guess you can consider pressing ctrl-alt-del on the console, making the
    > machine reboot, a flaw as well ;-))
    > 
    > Patrick
    > 
    > -- 
    > "Warning: you are logged into reality as root..."
    > 
    > 
    
    Which before anybody considers that a 'flaw' can be disabled by commenting
    out the relevant line in the inittab..
    
    [uidzer0@jupiter uidzer0]$ cat /etc/inittab | grep -i ctrl
    # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
    ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
    
    
    --
    uidzer0
    



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