Re: Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del in Jessie [Solved]

From	Bit Head <Bit_Head@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del in Jessie [Solved]
Date	2015-12-01 19:30 +0100
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Thanks, Martin. With that info, I was able to confirm that the link 'control-alt-del.target -> /dev/null' does disable C-A-D from a tty.  And it took a bit to find it, but the behavior in KDE can be managed in:

System Settings --> Shortcuts and Gestures --> Global Keyboard Shortcuts --> The KDE Session Manager (from the pull down menu)

There are 3 items there which can be configured independently: Log Out, Log Out without Confirmation, and Reboot without Confirmation.  Each can have its own keystroke sequence, or be set to None.

Yeah!  No more erroneous reboots due to Windows screen lock attempts on Jessie! :-)

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From: Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 4:31 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del in Jessie

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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