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Trusted Solaris Administrator's Procedures

SPARC: To Enable Keyboard Shutdown

By default, Trusted Solaris systems can only be brought down by an orderly shutdown through the Shut Down option from the Trusted Path menu. The Stop-A keyboard shutdown does not work.

Where the site's security policy allows, the default setting can be changed. On hosts that are used by administrators for debugging, this setting can be changed to allow access to the kadb(1M) kernel debugger.

  1. Assume the Security Administrator role and go to an ADMIN_LOW workspace.

  2. Use the Admin Editor action to open the /etc/default/kbd file for editing.

    See "To Edit a Local File", if needed.

  3. Search for the string KEYBOARD_ABORT.


    KEYBOARD_ABORT=disable

  4. Enter a pound sign at the start of the line to comment it out.


    #KEYBOARD_ABORT=disable