On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, George Sollish wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> 
> > this is kind of a stupid question, but is there any way to invoke
> > shutdown via a keypress (like control-alt-delete) from a login screen on
> > an i386 running 1.4 and wscons?  running "reboot" from ddb doesn't
> > unmount filesystems.
> > 
> > Other than giving my boss the root password or leaving an open root
> > login, the only other option seems to be a "shutdown" account...
> 
> For the same reason I added my 'office' account to group 'operator'.
> Members of 'operator' can run shutdown (and very few other commands).  It
> seemed a better solution than handing out root passwords.
> 
> George E Sollish	Chief Engineer  	 Auto Gear Equipment
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> 			Project Manager		 The Payne Lake Project
> 

On workstations, I've setup 'reboot' and 'shutdown' userid's that are
uid=0 and have /sbin/reboot and /sbin/halt as their shells.  Not perfect,
but it's simple and works.

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