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Re: Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del in Jessie

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On 30/11/15 00:05, Bit Head wrote:
> In Jessie, this is proving to be more challenging as there is no inittab
> file to edit, and while I could create one, it would only contain
> commented lines, having a null effect.  It seems that in prior releases,
> one had to explicitly say what to do in order for anything to happen,
> and in Jessie, one has to explicitly say "do nothing" or action is taken
> (the logout/reboot/shutdown prompt is presented with a 30 second timeout).

That logout/reboot/shutdown prompt is a feature of your GUI environment, 
which should have a mechanism for configuring it to do something *else* 
(or, hopefully, nothing at all) in response to C-A-D.

For example, my XFCE4 environment is configured to lock the console when 
I make the three-finger salute.

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Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del in Jessie Bit Head <Bit_Head@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-30 01:20 +0100
  Re: Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del in Jessie Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-12-01 01:40 +0100
    Re: Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del in Jessie [Solved] Bit Head <Bit_Head@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-01 19:30 +0100

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