Re: Can you disable shutdown but not restart?

From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha (strange@nsk.yi.org)
Date: 11/10/01 

Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:39:41 +0000
From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange@nsk.yi.org>
To: Kevin Martin <KMartin@xcaliber.com>
Subject: Re: Can you disable shutdown but not restart?
Message-ID: <20011109233941.A5108@nsk.yi.org>

Why don't you just set a time in the BIOS for the system to wake up at
night? Then you would still be able to update the system even when
someone halted it, wouldn't need to disable the power button, and you would
save some money on electricity...

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:02:39PM -0600, Kevin Martin wrote:
> Is there a registry setting or policy that can be set to remove the ability
> of users to do a shutdown of their system while still enabling them to do a
> restart? This would keep users from "stopping" their machines and
> disabling the ability of automated update technology to do updates overnight
> while still giving them the ability to do a reboot when things get funky on
> their workstation. This is in a combined NT4/Win2k/WinXP environment. I'm
> already planning on disabling the power button so hard powering down the box
> will be disabled (except for pulling the plug) so this is the last piece of
> the puzzle.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin Martin kmartin@xcaliber.com
> Stafford Trading Inc. Chief Security Officer
> Chicago, IL 60604 TEL +1-312.356.4849
> 230 S. LaSalle, Ste. 688 

-- 
Luciano Rocha, strange@nsk.yi.org

The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what
you want.
                -- D. Cohen

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