Edit the /etc/inittab file as root
There’s a line like this in the file
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
Just comment it, or replace it with something like this
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:echo "Use the "shutdown -r now" command if you want to reboot the system"
Also you should read the shutdown manual. This is a part of this that I think is important if we want to lock the rebooting system.
ACCESS CONTROL
shutdown can be called from init(8) when the magic keys CTRL-ALT-DEL are pressed, by creating an appro-
priate entry in /etc/inittab. This means that everyone who has physical access to the console keyboard
can shut the system down. To prevent this, shutdown can check to see if an authorized user is logged in
on one of the virtual consoles. If shutdown is called with the -a argument (add this to the invocation
of shutdown in /etc/inittab), it checks to see if the file /etc/shutdown.allow is present. It then
compares the login names in that file with the list of people that are logged in on a virtual console
(from /var/run/utmp). Only if one of those authorized users or root is logged in, it will proceed. Oth-
erwise it will write the message
shutdown: no authorized users logged in
to the (physical) system console. The format of /etc/shutdown.allow is one user name per line. Empty
lines and comment lines (prefixed by a #) are allowed. Currently there is a limit of 32 users in this
file.
In some distros like Fedora, you must look for the /etc/event.d/control-alt-delete file to modify this event
Cheers
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