Microsoft is banking on enhancements to what it has dubbed the fundamentals to entice enterprises to upgrade to the next version of Windows, known as Vista. The company will use upcoming industry shows to sing the praises of improvements to the Windows networking stack and secure networking techniques such as server and domain isolation to sell both Vista and Longhorn, the planned update to Windows Server.
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Member since:> ever tried pressing ctrl+c? you'd probably have a
> hard time writing a fake console login manager
> that that wouldn't kill...
Not at all. Ctrl-C is easily trapped. I can even trap Ctrl-C from a shell script. Don't even even need C to do that. And no, I don't need to be root to trap Ctrl-C.
The only signal I can't trap is SIGKILL. All other signals can be trapped. And you don't need to be root to do so.
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So you say Ctrl+C is trappable, what about Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, which logs the user out of their current session? If one were really paranoid they could do that before every Linux login.
I don't see how touting Ctrl+Alt+Del from Windows is all that great, it's just pressing extra keystrokes, which I believe Ctrl+Alt+Backspace will replicate fine on Linux. Let me know if it is trappable though.
Member since:> ever tried pressing ctrl+c? you'd probably have a
> hard time writing a fake console login manager
> that that wouldn't kill...
And just to prove it to you,
Try running this shell script:
#!/bin/sh
trap noctrlc 2
noctrlc()
{
echo "You can't get out of here with Ctrl-C"
}
read foo
Member since:
2005-12-04
ever tried pressing ctrl+c? you'd probably have a hard time writing a fake console login manager that that wouldn't kill... and ctrl+alt+backspace would take care of any x-based ones...