Re: Multiple Keyboards in 2.2/2.4?

From: Adam Sampson (azz@gnu.org)
Date: Fri Sep 08 2000 - 05:57:56 EST

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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:00:05AM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> On the console level their are complex issues as well. Consider a
> system with 4 VTs attached to one machine. What if one person pressed
> Ctrl-Alt-Del. Anyone can bring the system down when multiple people depend
> on it.

That particular one is a userspace issue; you can simply tell init not to do
anything when Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed. (You'd also want to disable
magic-sysrq for the same reason.)

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