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.

Or if you're running X you could install kdm (even if you don't want to use
the rest of KDE), because it gives you halt/reboot/restart-X-server options
on the login screen.


Roger

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