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  • 1.  How to disable control Alt Delete on VMware Linux Guests

    Posted Oct 21, 2021 12:12 PM

    by mistake one of support person pressed control Alt delete soft button on VMware guest web console and guest invoked reboot. this was a RedHat guest.

    can this be avoided from VMware VCenter end.

    I got to know this can be eliminated from RedHat OS by setting up /etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf file.

    but I'm searching solution from VMware end as we have more than 500 RedHat guests.

    note: vSphere Client version 7.0.2.00500



  • 2.  RE: How to disable control Alt Delete on VMware Linux Guests

    Posted Oct 21, 2021 01:39 PM

    It took some time to get my head around this also. I am running my  tech news site on a Linux guest at the moment and I come up with this solution. Have you tried this?

    Try commenting out "ctrlaltdel" in this this file:

     

    /etc/inittab

     

    If using Ubuntu, try commenting out the entire contents of the following file:

     

    /etc/event.d/control-alt-delete