Restarting Xserver from cli

[Bart Silverstrim]

David Curtis wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:14:49 +0200
> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> How have you not heard? C-A-B is being disabled to prevent newbies
>>> exploring restarting their X servers. There was quite a discussion in
>>> ubuntu-devel-discuss.
>> Are there any documented cases where a newbie has been bitten by this.
>>
> 
> Yes, I was just on IRC #ubuntu when someone ask how to restart alsa/pulseaudio. Some idiot responded 'hit ctrl-alt-bksp' and boom, newb at xxx.xxx.xx.xx. has quit (client terminated). 
> 
> Laughable, yes. But if the questioner had lost data they would have been furious.

He was asking if there were cases of this before you did that... ;-)