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by remram 532 days ago
For anyone wondering how this works, molly-guard uses package diversions to actually rename the shutdown/reboot/... binaries and replace them with molly-guard: https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/molly-guard/tree/de...

This is a cool ability of dpkg that is not well known. You can use it without making a package as well.

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Didn't know what specific technique it used to do that, thanks for mentioning this!

Btw for those who wonder where the name comes from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26633320