OL 9 must disable the ability of a user to accidentally press Ctrl-Alt-Del and cause a system to shut down or reboot.

A locally logged-in user who presses Ctrl-Alt-Del, when at the console, can reboot the system. If accidentally pressed, as could happen in the case of mixed OS environment, this can create the risk of short-term loss of availability of systems due to unintentional reboot.

This requirement assumes the use of the OL 9 default graphical user interface—the GNOME desktop environment. If the system does not have any graphical user interface installed, this requirement is Not Applicable.

Verify that OL 9 is configured to ignore the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence in the GNOME desktop with the following command:

$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys logout "['']"

If the GNOME desktop is configured to shut down when Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed, this is a finding.

Configure OL 9 to ignore the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence in the GNOME desktop.

Add or update the [org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys] section of the /etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-security-settings database file and add or update the following lines:

[org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys] logout=['']

Run the following command to update the database:

$ sudo dconf update