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>=20
> Robin Becker wrote:
> > My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants=20
> > some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a=20
> > non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the=20
> > world. At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that=20
> box ie it's=20
> > purely key based.
> 	What I would do is develop a script (owned by  root )=20
> and callable by everybody which then checks the  user-id  of=20
> its caller, and if it is an acceptable one, the script will=20
> issue a warning (to wall) and then shutdown the system.
>=20

why not ask them to do CTRL+ALT+DEL which will reboot the server cleanly =
and once it hit does the intial reset, turn it off.

Tamouh