Confirm CTRL-ALT-DEL before rebooting

Brentley brently at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 17:44:35 UTC 2004


> Or is there some other way to not totally disable reboot upon CTRL-ALT-DEL,
> but make it more secure by requiring some kind of a confirmation (entering a
> string or pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL 3 times instead of just once, or something
> like that...)

What if you changed the -t3 to a -t60 in /etc/inittab.  This would
give you 60 seconds from the time you hit ctrl-alt-del to issue a
shutdown -c to cancel it.





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