How to disable Ctrl+Alt+Del causing system reboot in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Issue
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It's a security vulnerability for us to allow anyone with physical access to reboot our servers via
Ctrl-Alt-Delete-- how can we mitigate this? -
How to make it so that pressing
Control-Alt-Deleteon a virtual console (black-screen tty) only causes some audit-log entry, instead of a system reboot?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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