[5499] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Athena 9.4.27 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jun 23 02:39:58 2006
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 02:33 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Did I miss the ultimate discussion on this issue?
It was discussed very briefly at a release team meeting, but that was
pretty much just an acknowledgement that release-77 [5455] was the final
word.
The reason for disabling ctrl-alt-backspace has nothing to do with
security; it's about the risk of losing your work to a misplaced thump
on the right side of the keyboard.
> It is an awfully handy feature to be able to log out users when things
> get stuck/broken, which of course happens far too
> freqeuently. Especially on quickstations, with dueling
> xscreensaver/bugme that is often (but not always) non-responsive to
> Ctrl-L.
Ctrl-alt-F1 ctrl-alt-del still works; while it takes longer, we live
with that on Solaris (stop+a and boot) and it's okay.
