Disable Power Button
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Wed Jun 16 17:28:38 UTC 2004
At 11:15 6/16/2004, Oliver Aaltonen wrote:
>Is there a way to disable the power button? Currently, pressing the
>power button causes an immediate hard-power-down of the system. I
>would like the option to either disable the power button for
>non-privileged users altogether. If that isn't possible, it would be
>nice to at least have the machine shut down cleanly.
Apart from ACPI (which I don't know at all yet), you may also want to see
what options the computer's BIOS offers you. Most have some sort of option
for the power button.
Cheers,
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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
http://www.simpaticus.com
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