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Re: [suse-security] preventing login screen emulation?
  • From: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 19:03:23 +1300 (NZDT)
  • Message-id: <200011010603.TAA28938@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> The last that comes into my mind is a small script or program that runs
> started by init and that kills all non-root (and possibly others) programs
> on the machine. It could be bound to ctrl-alt-del like the following
> (/etc/inittab):

Hmmmm. There goes multi-user... :-((

(I mean someone could have legitimate processes running wihtout terminal.)

> Personally, I dislike the ctrl-alt-del thing. It seems to me that it
> should teach people that rebooting just like in old DOS times isn't really
> necessary any more and that there has been some progress since color TV
> was invented.

That's a good one to add to "quotable quotes" :-)

Volker

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