On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Matthew King wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:08:04PM +0100, The voices made Grzesiek Sedek say: > > How can I disable virtual terminals (Alt-ctr-Fxx) reset (ctr-alt-del) > > These two are easy - delete the appropriate lines in /etc/inittab and > reload init (init q) > > Be careful not to delete all the terminals (leave vc/1). You'll regret > it otherwise. Then Ctrl-Alt-F1 will give user a console. That was the OP wanted to avoid. Rather then deleting the lines, edit them so that the VT not will be spawned in runlevel 2. That way you could reboot and add the number 3 as the last argument to lilo and you will have virtual terminals at your disposal. Securing a box from users with local access is hard. With unsupervised access no box is secure (unless it has a good lock and cannot be removed), supervised access is of course better, but still problematic. Use a password in BIOS and don't allow booting from floppies. If the box is attached to a network, consider disabling root login from console, make su executable for root only, deinstall sudo, turn on root logins from ssh and disable keyboard-interaktive login. That way, the only (?) way to get a root prompt is to authenticate with the proper ssh key. Don't lose your private key... -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.19 #1 fre jan 3 12:08:19 CET 2003 i686 unknown Hans Ekbrand
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