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If you want to disable CTFL-ALT-DEL from shutting down your server use the following procedure.
To disable the reboot action taken by pressing the Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combination, comment out the following line in the file /etc/event.d/control-alt-delete.
sudo vi /etc/event.d/control-alt-delete
Change the following line
exec /sbin/shutdown -r now “Control-Alt-Delete pressed”
to
#exec /sbin/shutdown -r now “Control-Alt-Delete pressed”
Save and exit the file
What about Alt-SysRq-B?
Thanks!
to prevent the use of sysrq add this to your /etc/sysctl.conf:
kernel.sysrq = 0
if you don’t want to reboot you can just do a sysctl -p as root to get the changes effective
wtf? Does control-alt-delete reboot a computer? I thought it only killed the X server.
I think Ctrl + alt + backspace kills the x server.
y would anyone with physical access to the computer use ctrl alt del,it is much easier to use the mouse,rite?anyway of blocking that?
doesn’t work for me
I have Hardy installed and followed your steps excactly…. tested directly and also after reboot: Control-Alt-Delete still works
any other way to get rid of that? and also Control-Alt-Backspace??
THX
Use the System/ Preferences/ Keyboard Shortcuts/
menupoint from the menu for redefine those Shortcuts