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From: rabe@beowulf.acc.stolaf.edu (brett m rabe; Jiffy Script Inc.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Power Switch Disabling?
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.144246.24584@news.stolaf.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 14:42:46 GMT
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In article <1991Feb28.231454.20522@src.honeywell.com> pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Clark) writes:
>>Here's what I hope is a simple question: How do you disable the power key? I
>>know that it CAN be done, I just don't know how...
>
>As root:
>
>foobar# dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled True
>
>	That ought to do it.
>
>	Pete C


A (perhaps) better way to do it would be to add the -PowerOffDisabled True flag
to loginwindow in your /etc/ttys file.  Then you wouldn't have to dwrite every
time your machine is rebooted.  Here's about what your console entry would 
look like if you added it:

console "/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow -PowerOffDisabled True" NeXT     on secure window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600"

(Sorry about the +80 column line. . . )

There are other options available, I believe they're explained somewhere
in the documentation....


brett


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