Subject: misc/30770: ctrl-alt-del-key-sequence on the console initiates reboot
To: None <misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/17/2005 20:53:00
>Number: 30770
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: ctrl-alt-del-key-sequence on the console initiates reboot
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Jul 17 20:53:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: Hanspeter Roth
>Release: NetBSD 3.99.6
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD goofy.here 3.99.6 NetBSD 3.99.6 (ACPI) #0: Thu Jun 23 00:08:12 CEST 2005 user@goofy.here:/estick/netbsd/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/ACPI i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
The Ctrl-Alt-Del-key-sequence issued at the console should be possible
to initiate a reboot.
(In X-Windows it should be left to X. Icewm for example uses this for
itself.)
Some users regard this as a security problem. So it should be disabled
by default. But it should be possible to enable it by some sysctl
parameter.
>How-To-Repeat:
switch to console: Ctrl-Alt-F1
Ctrl-Alt-Del
>Fix:
>Unformatted: