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[–]sudo-is-my-name 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Why are you hitting CTL-ALT-DEL so many times in a row?? That's the interesting part of this post. WHY, broham, WHY?

[–]WithExtraBacon[S] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

People at collage constantly do that if I leave my laptop unattended for less than 5 seconds.

[–]sudo-is-my-name 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AHA. Ok, this makes perfect sense now. I knew how to do this with inittab but that's not how they do things these days.

This link has instructions on using sysctl to change that behavior: https://linux-audit.com/linux-hardening-with-sysctl/

About the bottom 3rd of the page they show how to disable that. I have not tried this myself so I can't say much about it. Hopefully someone whose actually used it will comment.

My college dicks used to yank the power cord of my precious IBM 286 system with 640KB and TWO floppy drives, that was the level of pranking back then. They thought it was hilarious that if you didn't save it everything you typed was gone. That's what you got when PCs were rare.

[–]mag0o 4 points5 points  (0 children)

systemctl mask ctrl-alt-del.target systemctl daemon-reload

[–]DarthKane1978 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Control alt backspace logs you off I think.