Disable user hit "del" key to cancel

[irontech]

Hi Brian K. White

Thank you for your helpful reply. :)

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[irontech]

Brian K. White,

Is that any way I could disable only all oridinary user hit delete key
but not root?

I have thousand plus users ID, I tried put (stty intr "") into
/etc/profile, but it effect even root.

Thanks.

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[Brian K. White]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 02:55:56 +0000, irontech wrote:

>
> Brian K. White,
>
> Is that any way I could disable only all oridinary user hit delete key
> but not root?
>
> I have thousand plus users ID, I tried put (stty intr "") into
> /etc/profile, but it effect even root.
>
> Thanks.

((`id -u`)) && stty intr ""


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[Brian K. White]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:44:12 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 02:55:56 +0000, irontech wrote:
>

>>
>> Brian K. White,
>>
>> Is that any way I could disable only all oridinary user hit delete key
>> but not root?
>>
>> I have thousand plus users ID, I tried put (stty intr "") into
>> /etc/profile, but it effect even root.
>>
>> Thanks.

>
>
> ((`id -u`)) && stty intr ""

excuse me
that works only in ksh (and bash and probably others) but not
plain sh. So here is the less interesting but more compatible:

[ `id -u` = 0 ] || stty intr ""


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[James J]

irontech <member27304@dbforums.com> expounded in
news:3093568.1057802156@dbforums.com:

>
> Brian K. White,
>
> Is that any way I could disable only all oridinary user hit delete key
> but not root?
>
> I have thousand plus users ID, I tried put (stty intr "") into
> /etc/profile, but it effect even root.
>
> Thanks.

Depending on the circumstances, I think a better option might be to change
intr to something the users aren't likely to hit accidentally. That way,
you still have an "interrupt" key available if a user actually needs it.
The key can be the same for all users, but if you have different terminal
types, that could be an issue (not all keyboards have the same keys).

For example, we wanted to use Delete as a "hot key" in our application
(along with Insert, Home, End, etc.), so we changed intr to something else.

FWIW, we used "stty intr \^\~". On most US terminal keyboards, that was a
Control-tilde (Control and the character to the left of the number 1 above
the letters, either "`" or "~"). On an SCO console it was Control-6 (the 6
above the letters, not on the numeric keypad).

James