[ILUG] Re: ctrl-alt-del, login to NT

Paul Mc Auley paul at baltimore.ie
Fri Jan 7 11:56:57 GMT 2000


On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:52:01 +0000 (GMT) 
Johno Sullivan <johno at tornado.ie>  wrote:

| more ctrlaltdel stupidity can be found in beta copies of windows2000.
| I accidentally booted a machine to win2000beta and was presented with a
| nice login screen. unfortunately there is no way to reboot the machine
| without logging in first. I didn't have a username/passwd so I had to
| switch off the machine without a proper shutdown. hopefully the dumbfucks
| fixed this since then.

That's a policy thing, by default NTWS allows shutdown from the login and 
Server doesn't, it's configurable and is there for obvious reasons.
	Paul





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