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From: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
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Subject: Re: Disabling power key
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Date: 28 Apr 91 16:37:10 GMT
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In article <1991Apr28.143152.14734@news.stolaf.edu> brownd@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu  
(David H. Brown) writes:
[stuff deleted at various places]
> However, if the point is just to "protect" users from turning the machine
> off, this redundancy would allow you to physically remove the keyswitch under
> the power button if you _really_ wanted to. This would most certainly kill
> any warranty and wouldn't do much for the resale value, either!
 
> Dave Brown (brownd@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu)

Well, if you do that, you would have to pull the plug to turn the power off.

There is no way to secure the machine if someone has physical access to it...  
The PowerKeyDisabled thing just protects users from turning off the machine by  
accident, which is really the best you can do.

Mike