Disable STOP+A Utility on SUN Machines

You can disable the STOP+A key function on the SUN Microsystem’s keyboard. If someone entered the STOP+A function, it will do nothing to the system otherwise it will boot the Solaris into ok prompt.

Method 1

• Turn the keyswitch to the Lock position

Method 2

• Go to /etc/system and the following line inside it. Make sure to reboot to apply the changes.

# vi /etc/system
set abort_enable = 0

Method 3

• Go to /etc/default/kbd and remove the comment before ‘KEYBOARD_ABORT‘.

# vi /etc/default/kbd
KEYBOARD_ABORT=disable

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